Edited by Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen

ISBN 1552380742

$34.95 paper

October 2002
348 pages

About the Book

"Since the 1980s, dialogue with China has been crucial in sharpening critical thought among American literary and cultural academic intellectuals, and this new volume carries that exchange into important new places, as a dozen distinct voices from America—including historians, feminists, and world-famous theorists—reply freely and deeply to an agenda of challenging questions from two Chinese scholars looking to the future." — Jonathan Arac, Pittsburgh University

A remarkable collection of interviews with some of the world's leading cultural critics and theorists, this book covers topics such as culture, ideology, history, modernity, post-modernity, post-ocolonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today's society. Critics include:

• Arif Dirlik
• Teresa Ebert
• Barbara Foley
• Fredric Jameson
• Pamela McCallum
• J. Hillis Miller
• Masao Miyoshi
• Bruce Robbins
• John Carlos Rowe
• Henry Schwarz
• Richard Terdiman, and
• Hayden White

The impressive contributions of these experts will be useful and engaging to scholars working in the areas of cultural studies, cultural materialism, and Marxist theory.

"This is a fascinating, engaging, and learned set of discussions centred on some of the most important questions of the day. These eminent scholars take the questions posed to them very seriously and provide a valuable set of responses to them, based on careful analysis and a broad familiarity with research in the field." — Diana Brydon, University of Western Ontario

 

About the Editors

Shaobo Xie is an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Wang Fengzhen is a research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

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