| High Culture Fever |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| One "Who Am I?" Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation |
| Two High Culture Fever The Cultural Discussion in the Mid-1980s and the Politics of Methodologies |
| Three Heshang and the Paradoxes of the Chinese Enlightenment |
| Four Mapping Aesthetic Modernity |
| Five Romancing the Subject Utopian Moments in the Chinese Aesthetics of the 1980s |
| Six The Pseudoproposition of "Chinese Postmodernism" Ge Fei and the Experimentalist Showcase |
| Seven Wang Shuo "Pop Goes the Culture?" |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| Index |