Download or read book Public Discourses of Contemporary China written by Y. Shen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.