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Chinese Cultural Fever (Chinese, trad. 文化熱, simpl. 文化热, pinyin Wénhuàrè) is a cultural tendency happened in China in the late '80s, starting with its economical reforms. It can be considered as the first independent cultural initiative in China since 1949. After the de facto period of isolation, China started to have contact with Western Thoughts. This tendency ended tragically in 1989 due to the sudden change of political climate.

Literature

 * Zhang X. On Some Motifs in the Chinese "Cultural Fever" of the Late 1980s: Social Change, Ideology, and Theory. Social Text. No. 39 (Summer, 1994), pp. 129–156.
 * Zhang X. Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema. 1997.
 * Wang J. High Culture Fever: Politics, Aesthetics, and Ideology in Deng's China. 1996.
 * Chang L. Culture fever // Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture. Compiled by EdwART. 2011. http://contemporary_chinese_culture.academic.ru/165/culture_fever

Category:Chinese culture Category:1980s in China