Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part I Beyond Postmodernism -- 1 Postmodernity and Globalization -- Postmodernism: From a Western-Centric Discourse to a Glocalized Discourse -- The Rise of Popular Culture as a Glocalized Deconstructive Discourse -- Reconstructing the Discourse of Globalization: A Chinese Perspective -- Glocalizing Postcolonialism: Toward a Reconstruction of the Neo-Confucianist Discourse -- Notes -- 2 Globalization as Glocalization in China -- Globalization and Glocalization: The West and China -- Reconstructing Globalization: A Marxist Perspective -- Globalization as a Means of Global Economic Operation -- Globalization as a Historical Process -- Globalization as a Process of Financial Marketization and Political Democratization -- Globalization as a Critical Concept -- Globalization as a Narrative Category -- Globalization as a Cultural Construction -- Globalization as a Theoretical Discourse -- Consumer Culture and Its Study in China -- "De-Third-Worldizing" China in the Process of Globalization -- Notes -- 3 Theories and Cultural Trends After Postmodernism -- The Rise of Postcolonialism and the "Centralizing" Attempt -- Feminism and Its Plural Orientations -- Feminist Sexual Politics -- Marxist Feminism -- Anti-Feminist Feminism -- Female Writing and Female Criticism -- French Feminist Theory -- Lesbian Studies and Its Theory -- Confronting the Impact of Cultural Studies -- Diaspora Writing and Rewriting of Literary History -- Globalization and the Theoretical Construction of Culture -- Ecocriticism and the Construction of an Environmental Ethics -- A New Topic in Gender Studies: Lesbian and Queer Studies -- The Death and Rebirth of Comparative Literature -- The Advent of the Era of Iconography and the Iconographic Turn in Literary Criticism -- Notes.