This book engages with the critical decline of postmodernism and newer currents of thinking that have come to the fore, including postcolonialism, feminism and cultural studies, constituting an exploration of the cultural landscape after the heyday of postmodernism in the West and its profound influence on the Chinese cultural scene.

Wang Ning is Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Changjiang Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Tsinghua University in China. He was elected to the Academy of Latinity in 2010 and to Academia Europaea in 2013. He specializes in literary and cultural theory, comparative literature, and world literature.

Part I Beyond Postmodernism 1. Postmodernity and Globalization 2. Globalization as Glocalization in China 3. Theories and Cultural Trends after Postmodernism Part II Postcolonialism Reconsidered 4. Diasporic Writing and the Reconstruction of Chinese National and Cultural Identity or Identities 5. Edward Said: Orientalism and the Critique of Cultural Hegemonism 6. Gayatri Spivak: Postcolonial Intellectual and Third World Criticism 7. Homi Bhabha: Narration, Cultural Location and Identity 8. Chinese Cinema Challenged by Postcoloniality and Globalization Part III Feminist Theory and Literature 9. New Orientations of Feminist Theory 10. Gender Studies in the Post-theoretical Era 11. The Feminist Sense in Contemporary Chinese Female Literature Part IV Cultural Studies 12. Cultural Studies: Mainstream Intellectual Trends in the West 13. Cultural Studies and the Future of Comparative Literature 14. Cultural Studies and Canonical Literature Studies 15. Postmodernity in Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture 16. The Characteristics of Schizophrenia in Contemporary Chinese Literature