Postsocialism and Cultural PoliticsIn Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of Chinas long 1990s, the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and Chinas entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001. The 1990s were marked by Deng Xiaopings market oriented reforms, the Taiwan missile crisis, the Asian financial crisis, and the end of British colonial rule of Hong Kong. Considering developments including the states cultivation