After the Post–Cold WarIn After the PostCold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the countrys socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialisms past as failure and thus