Rogue's Feast - Rogue Narratives in Contemporary China

Author: Zhu Dakuo
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: This book delves deeply into the phenomenon of the "mob discourse" prevalent in contemporary China. Contemporary China is divided into two societies: one is the state society, and the other is a "mob society" that is disorderly, faithless, authority-deficient, and amoral, based on the two hundred million landless migrants, becoming the hidden attribute of contemporary China. This book takes identity theory as its logical premise, focuses on mob discourse as its object, and uses elements such as cool language, erotic language, and vulgar language for analysis. It conducts a comprehensive, in-depth, and uniquely innovative interpretation of the mob narrative patterns permeating various cultural forms (such as novels, poetry, art, music, and popular culture), convincingly revealing the basic characteristics of mob discourse. It is refreshing and groundbreaking in the study of mobology, as well as a rare achievement in discourse studies within the Chinese intellectual circles in recent years.