Synopses & Reviews
Informative and accessible, this record conducts a multidirectional scan of contemporary China’s cultural conflict, revealing that the carnival under globalization is only a false characterization of this era. An authoritative resource, this account argues that modernity fractures the history of experience, tradition perseveres, and cultural conflict will inevitably follow.
About the Author
Meng Fanhua is a distinguished professor at Shenyang Normal University in China, a doctoral supervisor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences at Jilin University, the vice president of the Writers Association of Liaoning Province, and the vice president of the Association of Contemporary Chinese Literature. He is the author of An Academic History of China’s Literature and Art in the 20th Century (Part III), A Feast of the Imagination, and Gods’ Carnival.