The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Rural Nostalgia in Xi-Era Chin…

This article offers a new theoretical framework to understand nostalgia as a politicaleconomic and a cultural-political discourse in China. Introducing nostalgia as a “structure of feeling” in postreform China, the article analyzes its elevation as a new trope to address the economic and cultural contradictions of capitalistic global integration in the wake of the 2008 global financial c…