LEADER 02716cam a2200385 i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20201007142330.0 007 ta 008 190221t20192019nyu b 001 0 eng c 010 2018044264 020 9780231191401 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 0231191405 |q(hardcover ; |qalkaline paper) 020 |z9780231549400 |q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)1064216845 040 LBSOR/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dERASA |dYDX |dOCLCO |dCDX 042 pcc 043 a-cc--- 050 00 DS779.23 |b.V44 2019 082 00 305.5/520951 |223 100 1 Veg, Sebastian, |d1976- |eauthor. 245 10 Minjian : |bthe rise of China's grassroots intellectuals / |cSebastian Veg. 260 New York : |bColumbia University Press, |c2019. 300 ix, 352 pages ; |c25 cm. 337 unmediated 490 1 Global Chinese culture 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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. 520 "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"-- 651 0 China |xIntellectual life |y1976- 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6305_500000000000000_520951_VEG |70 |8REF |9129727OSA |bOSA |d2020-10-07 |eOSA |l0 |o305.5/520951 VEG |r2020-10-07 |w2020-10-07 |yBK |cReference 920 01 2XbPQaez 992 01 305_500000000000000_520951_VEG |bWZU_UZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_UXZQUY_4LJ 966 |cIn the Research Room