Open Access文化漫游与精神家园——当代中国文化散文的公共语境 (Cultural Tours and the Spiritual Home: On Yu Qiuyu and Contemporary Chinese Cultural Essays)
Author(s) -
Yi Zheng
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
portal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.125
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 1449-2490
DOI - 10.5130/portal.v4i1.357
Subject(s) - popularity , china , taste , commodity , cultural inheritance , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , aesthetics , sociology , history , literature , art , political science , law , poetry , psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , neuroscience , economics , market economy , gene , digital library
The essay explores the public social dimension of the “great cultural essays” as a popular post-socialist genre. It looks into the genre’s emergence and popularity as part of the making of a middleclass taste in contemporary China and its claim to a re-imagined cultural national inheritance. In particular, the discussion focuses on the example of essayist Yu Qiuyu and examines the implications of his successful transformation of an obsolete historical “Culture” into a desirable commodity that offers spiritual home to the aspiring and successful of a “Greater China”