Postmodernism and China

by Arif Dirlik, Abidin Kusno, Anthony D. King, et al.

Book Overview

Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume's diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325446
• ISBN13: 9780822325444
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"