New Asian Marxisms

Tani E. Barlow is founder and editor of positions and teaches Chinese Women’s history at the University of Washington. She is the editor of Formations of Colonial Modernity in East Asia and Gender Politics in Modern China, both of which are published by Duke University Press.

""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

Preface: Everything Diverges / Tani E. BarlowIntroduction: Decency and Debasement / William PietzDreaming of Better Times: “Repetition with a Difference” and Community Policing in China / Michael DuttonConstructing Perry’s “Chinaman” in the Context of Adorno and Benjamin / D. R. HowlandRedemption and Consumption: Depicting Culture in the 1990s / Dai JinhuaMaking Time: Historic Preservation and the Space of Nationality / Marshall JohnsonAesthetics and Chinese Marxism / Liu KangThe World Conception of Japanese Social Science: The Kõza 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 ParkSpring, Temporality, and History in Li Dazhao / Claudia PozzanaSpring / Li DazhaoThe Probable Defeat: Preliminary Notes on the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Alessandro RussoInterpreting Revolutionary Excess: The Naxalite Movement in India, 1967–1971 / Sanjay SethMarxism, 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 / Jing WangContributorsIndex