Invisible Writing: 1990s Chinese Culture Studies

Author: Dai Jinhua
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Publish Date: 1999-09-01
Features: In the 1990s, popular culture undoubtedly became the protagonist on the stage of Chinese culture. Beneath the dazzling and prosperous surface, there lies a far more profound invisible writing. To highlight this invisible script and outline a cultural terrain map in new coordinates is a choice for a cultural researcher.
Author Bio: Dai Jinhua was born in Beijing in 1959 and graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University in 1982. She has taught at the Department of Film Literature, Beijing Film Academy. Currently, she serves as a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Comparative Literature and Comparative Culture, Peking University, and as a professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, Ohio State University. She conducts research in film history and theory, women's literature, and popular culture. Her works include Emerging from the Surface of History: A Study of Modern Chinese Women's Literature (co-authored), A Handbook of Film Theory and Criticism, Breaking Through the Mirror City (a collection of essays), Invisible Writing: A Study of 1990s Chinese Culture, Still in the Mirror: Interviews with Dai Jinhua, Puzzle Game (a collection of essays), Scenes in the Fog: Chinese Film Culture, 1978–1998, and Cinema and Desire: A Feminist Maxism and Cultural Politics in Dai Jinhua's Works. She has also edited and written works such as Writing Cultural Heroes: Cultural Studies at the Turn of the Century.