Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: Mapping the Multivalence of Contemporary Chinese Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism 1 Post-New Period, Postmodernism and Postsocialism 2 Raymond Williams'' Three Cultures and the Chinese Variations 3 Structural Outline of the Five Features part 1: The Structure of Feeling of the Traditional Socialist Era 1 A Lyrical Poet in the Era of Postsocialism: On Some Motifs of Fanken Chen''s Poems 1 Attachment to a "Cultural China" and Yearning for a "Political China" 2 A Heroic Complex with the Plebeian Consciousness 3 The Motifs of Patriotism and Homesickness 4 Affective Economy and the Spiritual World of the Socialist Era 5 Conclusion2 On the Historical-Cultural Connotations of "Chinese New Poetry": Fu Tianhong''s Poems as a Case-Study 1 The Formation of the Rebellious Personality and Critical Consciousness 2 Pioneering Spirit, Perseverance and the Desire for Freedom 3 Critique of the Alienation of a Commercialized Society 4 Historical Retrospection and Social Activities 5 Conclusion part 2: The Historical Consciousness of the New Liberal Humanism 3 Anatomizing China''s "Avant-Garde Fiction": Articulating Historical Experience in Formal Experimentation 1 Ma Yuan: The Dispersion of Meaning during Secularization 2 Ge Fei: Disintegration and Dispersion of the Subject 3 Yu Hua: Historical Projection of a Post-Revolutionary Secular Society 4 Su Tong: Retrospection on Revolution by the New Bourgeois Class 5 Conclusion4 Sampling the "New Historical Fiction": White Deer Plain as a Representative Text of New Historicism 1 A Patriarchal Clan System Consisting of Master-Slave Relationships 2 The Opening of the Gate of Desire 3 Three Rebels Fighting against Existing Institutions 4 Three Political Forces: An Incomprehensive Representation 5 A Rebel''s Tragic Ending and the Incompleteness of History 6 The Textual Blankness and the Vacancy of Political Belief 7 "Cultural-Psychological Structure" and the Culturalist Mentality 8 Historical Revisionism and New Historicist Fiction 9 Conclusion part 3: From Post-Revolutionary Passion to Postmodern Consumerism 5 Two Kinds of Bildungsroman : On the Avant-Garde Films of China''s Sixth-Generation Auteurs 1 Dirt (1992): A Bildungsroman of Youth in the Early 1990s 2 The Making of Steel (1997): Why Could the Steel Not Be Successfully Made? 3 Conclusion6 "Postmodern" Love Stories: Articulating the Self-Consciousness of the Entrepreneurial Class in China''s Pop Cinema 1 A Hedonistic and Yuppy Life Philosophy: Romance on Lushan Mountain 2010 as a Tale of China''s Entrepreneurial Class 2 Nihilists and the Pragmatic Principle: So Young (2013) as a Symptomatic "Youth Film" part 4: Middle Class Tastes and Intellectual Trends 7 Making a Historical Fable: The Narrative Strategy of Lust, Caution and Its Social Repercussions 1 A Précis of the Surface Plotline 2 Projection of Social Institutions in Historical Representation 3 Displacement of Party Politics by Sexual Politics 4 Appropriation of Historical Allegory through Identity Deconstruction 5 Conclusion 6 Coda8 Social Democracy or Neoliberal Freedom? Globalization and Contemporary Chinese Intellectual Thought 1 Dialectics of Postmodernism and (Post-)Nationalism 2 Cooperation of Neo-Statism and "Corporatism" 3 Conflicts between New Left and New Right 4 Outcry for New Socialism and the Urge for Neoliberal Capitalism 5 Conclusion part 5: Cultural Identity and Subjectivity in the Age of Global Capitalism 9 The Exploration of "Cultural Politics" and Its Crossroads: On the Discussions of "Chinese Identity" in the Era of Globalization 1 Why to Take German Thinkers as the Object of Research? 2 Totality and the Dialectics of Historical Materialism 3 The Dialectic between Universality and Particularity 4 Cultural Diversity and Pluralism 5 How to Transcend the Nation-State System and Rebuild Continuity? 6 What is Cultural Politics? 7 Tensions and Dilemmas: Whose Cultural Politics? 8 Conclusion10 Establishing the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese Culture: Zhou Ning''s Research as a Case Study 1 Critique of Sinologism and Modern Academic Institutions 2 From "Study of the Chinese Image in the West" to "Cross-Cultural Study" 3 The Problems of "Self-Orientalization" and "Universal Value" 4 The Pitfalls of Genealogical Study and Culturalist Mentality 5 Exploring the Subjectivity of Modern Chinese Culture 6 Conclusion Conclusion: In Search of the Renaissance of China''s Socialist Culture Selected Bibliography Index.