New Asian Marxisms

by Barlow, Tani E.; Pietz, William (CON); Dutton, Michael (CON); Howland, Douglas R. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822328735
• ISBN10: 0822328739
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780822383352
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
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Summary

Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New Asian Marxisms collects essays by a range of scholars-including historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists-who offer a range of studies about the Marxist heritage, with a focus on Korea, Japan, India, and China.While some of the essays discuss key individuals in the history of the Marxist tradition or the continuing need to address outstanding problematics, others examine nationalist literature and discourse in North and South Korea, the "Mao Zedong Fever" of the 1990s, the poetry of Li Dazhao, and the Naxalite movement in India. Stressing the analytical importance of categories such as exploitation, alienation, and violence for any engagement with the politics of knowledge, the contributors confront the fading interest in alternatives to global consumerism by providing accounts of political struggles, cultural resistance, and theoretical strategies.

Table of Contents

Preface: Everything Diverges	vii
Tani E. Barlow
Introduction: Decency and Debasement	1	(20)
William Pietz
Dreaming of Better Times: ``Repetition with a Difference'' and Community Policing in China	21	(32)
Michael Dutton
Constructing Perry's ``Chinaman'' in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin	53	(36)
D. R. Howland
Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s	89	(16)
Dai Jinhua
Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality	105	(68)
Marshall Johnson
Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism	173	(32)
Liu Kang
The World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Koza Faction, the Otsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics	205	(42)
Sugiyama Mitsunobu
``And They Would Start Again'': Women and Struggle in Korean Nationalist Literature	247	(22)
You-me Park
Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao	269	(22)
Claudia Pozzana
Spring	291	(20)
Li Dazhao
The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution	311	(22)
Alessandro Russo
Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967--1971	333	(26)
Sanjay Seth
Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse	359	(26)
Gi-Wook Shin
``Who Am I?'' ---Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation	385	(32)
Jing Wang
Contributors	417	(2)
Index	419