"Rogue's Feast"

Author: Zhu Dake
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Publish Date: 2006-12-31
Features: This book delves into the phenomenon of the "ruffian discourse" prevalent in contemporary China. Contemporary China is divided into two societies: one is the state society, and the other is a ruffian society that is disorderly, faithless, authority-deficient, and amoral, based on the two hundred million landless migrants, becoming the invisible attribute of contemporary China. The book takes identity theory as its logical premise, with ruffian discourse as its object, and analyzes elements such as harsh language, suggestive language, and vulgar language, to comprehensively and uniquely interpret the ruffian narrative patterns permeating various cultural forms (novels, poetry, art, music, and mass culture, etc.), convincingly revealing the basic characteristics of ruffian discourse. It is a refreshing read. It represents a major breakthrough in the study of ruffianology and a rare achievement in discourse research within the Chinese intellectual circles in recent years. The book consists of twelve chapters, including topics such as the transformation of state discourse and its aesthetic leap; identity and discourse: what is home; 1990–2000: the ruffian face in literature; spoken language, stuttering, fellatio: the banquet of post-ruffianism, etc.