Table of Contents

Introduction Mental Changes and the Carnival of the Gods Chapter 1 The Increasingly Blurred Cultural Map Chapter 2 State Will and the Mainstream Cultural Resources Chapter 3 Present-day Fashion and the Leaders Chapter 4 Lower Case Culture: Two Kinds of Time in Popular Culture Chapter 5 Swan Song and Oriental Utopia Chapter 6 The Media War and the Changes in Media Function Chapter 7 The Virtual World on "A Thousand Plateaus" Chapter 8 The Formation of New Social Classes and the Expansion of Discourse Space Chapter 9 The Writing of the Proletarians in the Capital Myth Time Chapter 10 Globalization / The Rebellion and Carnival of the Asian Youth Appendix I The "Betrayal", "Runaway" and "Death" of Intellectuals Appendix II The Specter of Totality and the Tradition of Being "Revived"

About the Author

Meng Fanhua is a Distinguished Professor of Shenyang Normal University, and Vice President of the Association of Contemporary Chinese Literature. His major publications include 1978: Passion; Dreams and Fate; An Academic History of China's Literature and Art in the 20th Century (Part III); A Feast of the Imagination; Roman Media and Cultural Leadership.