Abstract
By “French theory,” I mean a whole of various French avant-garde theories after their American repacking which starts from the late 1960s and ends by the death of Jacques Derrida in 2004 and Jean Baudrillard in 2007. Tracing its Chinese reception back to the happy 1980s when China benefited from “open police” and began to embrace Western culture, on the one hand, existentialism may be seen as a starting point; on the other hand, following the Americanization of “French theory,” it witnessed the Chinese course of post-modernism as well. Nevertheless, French theory is not a version of Parisian fashion, of which only the newest is appreciated. From the revival of Lefebvre’s critique of everyday life in China, we may conclude that theory should not be an intimidating unbounded corpus of writing, a resource for constant upstaging. Like culture, theory is ordinary too.
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