How should the project of cultural studies change for the twenty-first century? Does theory have general application? How should we evaluate revolutions? How should we define countries, like China, on the margins of modernity and post-modernity? Is a neo-Orientalism emerging in today's world?

These are questions Shaobo Xie and Wang Fengzhen ask a panel of North America's leading cultural critics. What emerges is a remarkable collection of interviews and dialogues that discuss culture, ideology, history, Marxism, modernity, post-modernity, post-colonialism, globalization, and the role of the university and the intellectual in today's society.

With Contributions by: Arif Dirlik Teresa Ebert Barbara Foley Fredric Jameson Pamela McCallum J. Jillis Miller Masao Miyoshi Bruce Robbins John Carlos Rowe Henry Schwarz Richard Terdiman Hayden White

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Shaobo Xie is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

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Wang Fengzhen is a research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

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Wang Fengzhen is a research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

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Wang Fengzhen is a research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

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Pamela McCallum is a professor of English at the University of Calgary. She was one of the founding members of the editorial group for Cultural Critique at the University of Minnesota, and she is currently editor of the journal ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature. Her research is focused around questions of representation, mainly in narrative, but sometimes in other cultural texts, such as film and the visual arts. She has written on Montreal artist Dominique Blain's installations and on the Vancouver artist Landon Mackenzie's paintings.

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