General Information

Author/Creator

Veg, Sebastian, 1976- author.

Language

English.

Published

New York : Columbia University Press, 2019.

Physical Description

ix, 352 pages ; 25 cm.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"Veg argues that a new type of intellectual appeared in post-Tiananmen China. Breaking with the universalist, enlightenment paradigm of the 1980s, as well as with the older, traditional figure of the advising and dissenting literati, intellectuals who came of age in the 1990s no longer indulged as frequently in sweeping discourses about culture, the nation, or democracy. Their legitimacy derived from their work with "vulnerable groups," and their shared experience with marginal realms of society. These "grassroots intellectuals" are not simply activists, however. They engage in a public discourse that relies on their specific knowledge, relying on the embryonic and always endangered public sphere that has appeared in China during this time. Moreover, they define themselves as separate both from the state and from the market, positing instead a third sector of activity"--

Subjects

Subject

China > Intellectual life > 1976-

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Sebastian Veg.

Series

Global Chinese culture

Content

Grassroots intellectuals: theoretical and historical perspectives -- Wang Xiaobo and the silent majority: redefining the role of intellectuals after Tiananmen -- Minjian historians of the Mao era: commemorating, documenting, debating -- Investigating and transforming society from the margins: the rise and fall of independent cinema -- Professionals at the grassroots: rights lawyers, academics, and petitioners -- Journalists, bloggers, and a new public culture.

ISBN

9780231191401

0231191405

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	305.5/520951 VEG		Reference	-

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