Analyzing contemporary Chinese literature, film, and television, Shen shows the significance of nationalism for the mass imagination in post-socialist China. Chapters move from the intellectual idealism of the 1980s, through the post-Tiananmen transition, to the national cinema of the 1990s, and finally to the Internet literature of today.

Autorentext
Yipeng Shen is Assistant Professor of Language and Culture Studies and International Studies, Trinity College, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Heshang: Socialist Historical Consciousness in Transformation and the 1980s Pedagogy of Reform 2. Making Money Is Patriotic: New Immigrant Fiction of the Early 1990s 3. Patriotism, History, and Leitmotif Films in the Late 1990s 4. Netizens, Counter-memories, and Internet Literature into the New Millennium Conclusion: Dreams in the Twenty-First Century