New Asian Marxisms

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Edited by Tani E. Barlow

Duke University Press

Due/Published May 2002, 448 pages, paper

ISBN 0822328739

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 an array 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.

Contributors. Tani Barlow, Michael Dutton, D. R. Howland, Dai Jinhua, Marshall Johnson, Liu Kang, Sugiyama Mitsunobu, You-me Park, William Pietz, Claudia Pozzana, Alessandro Russo, Sanjay Seth, Gi-Wook Shin, Jing Wang

"Tani Barlow's edited volume New Asian Marxisms brilliantly dramatizes how contemporary scholars have remembered Marxism in Asia of an earlier time and how this 'afterlife' today calls into question the amnesia of Western Marxism and its own complicity with exclusions identified with the culturalist claims of a 'unified' West. While the essays in this volume are all concerned with a particular place and time they also remind us of what so often is forgotten that Marxism is at home only in the world."--Harry Harootunian, New York University

Contents

Preface: Everything Diverges / Tani E. Barlow
Introduction: Decency and Debasement / William Pietz

Dreaming of Better Times: “Repetition with a Difference” and Community Policing in China / Michael Dutton
Constructing Perry's “Chinaman” in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin / D. R. Howland
Redemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s / Dai Jinhua
Making Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality / Marshall Johnson
Aesthetics and Chinese Marxism / Liu Kang
The World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kiza Faction, the Otsuka School, and the Uno School of Economics / Sugiyama Mitsunobu
“And They Would Start Again”: Women and Struggle in Korean National Literature / You-me Park
Spring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao / Claudia Pozzana
Spring / Li Dazhao
The Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Alessandro Russo
Interpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967-1971 / Sanjay Seth
Marxism, Anti-Americanism, and Democracy in South Korea: An Examination of Nationalist Intellectual Discourse / Gi-Wook Shin
“Who Am I?”—Questions of Voluntarism in the Paradigm of Socialist Alienation

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