Rogue's Feast (Contemporary Chinese Rogue Narratives): Contemporary Chinese Rogue Narratives

Author: Zhu Dake
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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" characterized by chaos, lack of belief, authority, and morality, which is based on the two hundred million landless migrants and has become 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 novel interpretation of the mob narrative patterns that permeate 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.