Preferred Citation: Wang, Jing. High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n683/


 

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Absolute Spirit, 21 , 292 n38

Absurdity, 33 , 35 , 42 , 169 -70

Academy of Chinese Culture, 40 , 49 -50, 70

A Cheng, 166 , 180 -81, 214 , 218 , 241 , 329 n47

and Cultural Revolution, 219 , 331 n69

and subjectivity, 173 , 174 , 215 , 216

and tradition vs. modernity, 182 -83, 185 -86

See also Root-searching literature

Adorno, Theodor, 76 , 77 , 105 , 106 , 302 n63, 326 n19

Aesthetic modernity, 4 , 42 -48, 137 -48, 177 -94

and alternative modern, 46 -47, 297 n15

and Cultural Revolution, 137 , 313 n19

and formalism, 144 -48, 313 -14n19

and ideology, 141 -44

and linguistic-representative rupture, 177 -80, 183

and May Fourth Movement, 48 , 298 n16

and modernization, 42 , 43 , 45 , 192 , 315 -16n33

and Mo Yan, 46 , 166 , 171 , 181 , 186 -89

and nationalism, 147 -48

and nihilism, 137 -38

1930s, 193

and play, 44 -45

and postmodernism, 233 , 252

and rationality, 42 -44

and stream of consciousness, 147 , 189 , 322 -23n153

and subjectivity, 42 , 160 , 172 -74

and utopianism, 42 , 143 , 159

and Wang Meng, 46 , 167 , 170 , 181 , 186 , 189 -92

See also Experimental fiction; Language fever; Modern consciousness; Pseudomodernism debate; Root-searching literature; Xiandai pai

Ah, Human Beings! Human Beings! (Ren a ren ) (Dai), 10 , 32

"Air Stewardess" ("Kongzhong xiaojie") (Wang), 282 , 341 n43

Alienation: economic, 12 , 14 , 16 -17, 291 n20

Marx on, 10 , 12 , 13 , 24 , 289 n4, 290 n8

political, 12 , 16 , 291 n26

and postmodernism, 239 , 335 n9

and post-new-era, 285 -86

of thought, 12 , 19

See also Socialist alienation

Alitto, Guy, 238

Alternative modern, 46 -47, 64 , 73 , 90 , 235 , 297 n15, 305 n99, 334 n3

See also Cultural subject; Greater China; Greater East Asia

Althusser, Louis, 58 , 203 , 324 n2

Anarchism, 13 -14, 233

Anderson, Perry, 105

Antihumanism, 26 , 29 , 77 , 184

and experimental fiction, 184 , 199 , 202

and pseudomodernism debate, 165 -67

and Wang Shuo phenomenon, 276 -77

Anti-imperialism, 1 , 288 n7

Anti-Spiritual Pollution Campaign, 11 , 15 , 19 , 25 , 202

Anxiety consciousness.  See Crisis consciousness

Aspirations (Kewang ), 266

At Middle Age (Rendao zhongnian ) (Shen), 34 , 114 , 296 n76


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Avant-garde fiction (xianfeng xiaoshuo ), 176 , 200 -201, 242 , 245 , 246

See also Experimental fiction


 

Preferred Citation: Wang, Jing. High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1996 1996. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0489n683/