Imre Lakatos and the guises of reason

Preface vii1. The Making of the Post-Tiananmen Intellectual Field: A Critical Overview / Xudong Zhang 1Part I. Against the Neoliberal Dogma: Four Arguments from China 2. Debating Liberalism and Democracy in China in the 1990s / Gan Yang 793. Whither China? The Discourse on Property Rights Reform in China / Zhiyuan Chi 1034. The Changing Role of Government in China / Shaoguang Wang 1235. Contemporary Chinese Thought and the Question of Modernity / Wang Hui 161Post-Tiananmen Art 199Part II. In the Global Context 6. King Kong in Hong Kong: Watching the "Handover" from the U.S.A. / Rey Chow 2117. The Burdens of History: Lin Zexu (1959) and the Opium War (1997) / Rebecca E. Karl 2298. Mao to the Market / Peter Hitchcock 2639. Chinese Consumerism and the Politics of Envy: Cargo in the 1990s? / Louisa Schein 28510. Nationalism, Mass Culture, and Intellectual Strategies in Post-Tiananmen China / Xudong Zhang 31511. Street Scenes of Subalternity: China, Globalization, and Rights / Michael Dutton 349Appendix. In the Tiger's Lair: Socialist Everydayness Enters the Market Economy in Post-Mao China / Harry D. Harootunian 371Contributors 383Index 385