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)

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Yi Zheng

Abstract

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”.

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Yi Zheng, University of Technology Sydney

Dr. Zheng Yi is a Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney. She received her PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, USA; she has been an Agora Fellow at the Advanced Studies Institute of Berlin, Germany, a Fellow at the Advanced Studies Institute of Budapest, Hungary, and a post-doctoral Fellow at the Porter Institute for Comparative Poetics. Her recent publications include: The Transformation of a Sublime Aesthetics: from Edmund Burke to Guo Moruo (Purdue University Press, Forthcoming); “The Figuration of a Sublime Origin: Guo Moruo’s Qu Yuan,” in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (2004); “Personalized Writing and Chinese Feminist Criticism in the ‘Post’-New Era,” in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (2004); Traveling Facts (editor, with Caroline Baillie and Elizabeth Dunn, 2004); “Cultural Traditions and Contemporaneity: the Case of the New Confucianist Debate,” in Wolf Lepenis (ed.) Entangled Histories and Negotiated Universals (2003).