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OverviewInformationFantasiesoffers a revisionist account of the emergence of the ""information society,""arguing that it was developed out of a set of techno-cultural imaginations andpractices that arrived alongside postsocialism. Ranging over forgotten sciencefiction, unjustly neglected films, corporeal practices such as qigong,scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories, it constructs analternate genealogy of digital and information imaginaries. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Xiao LiuPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm ISBN: 9781517902742ISBN 10: 1517902746 Pages: 376 Publication Date: 19 February 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviews"""Xiao Liu’s creative, erudite, and richly researched book entirely reconfigures our understanding of the media landscape in 1980s China. Her dense explorations of how new media emerged, coalesced, and interacted in this crucial period range over multiple formats—forgotten science fiction stories, neglected films, photographs, videotapes, computers, television and teletext, qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories—to draw science and aesthetics into a charged and illuminating encounter. The result is unquestionably one of the most original works to appear in Chinese cultural studies since the millennium.""—Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford ""Liu solidly connects a very unique system with the IT perceptual revolution, essential for understanding the present futuristic scenario.""—Neural ""Information Fantasies strives to maintain a balance between the liberatory excitement around digital media and the constant crises of postsocialist precariousness (p. 10) and will surely prove a fundamental resource for an audience of readers as interdisciplinary as this volume’s author.""—Asiascape ""Information Fantasies shows that the close reading of signs, symptoms and systems need not be at odds with descriptions of materiality and technicity.""—Critical Inquiry ""An ambitious academic dream turned into reality. The book shows the author’s diligence in research and skills in organizing extensive and dispersive materials with a clear focus. . . . A valuable work in the study of communication and humanity.""—China Review International ""The site-specific and historically situated cases, along with brilliant interpretations, will interest researchers in media, literature, and modern China studies as well as historians of technology.""—Technology and Culture " Xiao Liu's creative, erudite, and richly researched book entirely reconfigures our understanding of the media landscape in 1980s China. Her dense explorations of how new media emerged, coalesced, and interacted in this crucial period range over multiple formats-forgotten science fiction stories, neglected films, photographs, videotapes, computers, television and teletext, qigong, scientific journals, advertising, and cybernetic theories-to draw science and aesthetics into a charged and illuminating encounter. The result is unquestionably one of the most original works to appear in Chinese cultural studies since the millennium. -Margaret Hillenbrand, University of Oxford Author InformationXiao Liu is assistant professor of East Asian studies at McGill University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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