High Culture Fever : Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China Condition:Very Good But in reality most of

But in reality most of us don't have time to sit on a cushion with our eyes closed for half an hour every day

Some might say she’s thrown her life away

teaching missions and writing prolifically on theology and apologetics

Some take refuge behind government slogans

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High Culture Fever : Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China Condition:Very Good But in reality most ofJing Wang offers the first overview of the feverish decade of the 1980s in China, from early reexaminations of Maoism through the crackdown in Tiananmen Square. Wang's energetic, creative, and highly intelligent take on Chinese culture provides a broad portrait of the post revolutionary era and a provocative inquiry into the nature of Chinese modernity. In seven linked essays, the author examines the cultural dynamics that have given rise to the