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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

Jia Zhangke is praised as “the most internationally prominent and celebrated figure of the Six-Generation of Chinese filmmakers”. This book provides an examination the content and forms of Jia’s featured films and analyzes their merits and faults. Jia’s films often narrate the lives of ordinary Chinese people against the backdrop of the political-economic changes. The author conducts an in-depth analysis of how this change have ferociously impinged upon the characters’ living conditions since China integrated itself with the world economy in the high tide of accelerated globalization since the 1970s. The author focuses on discussing the “politics of dignity” expressed by Jia’s allegorical renditions to explore the director’s political unconsciousness and cultural-political notions. This book maps ten of Jia Zhangke’s films onto three major themes: Jia’s filmmaking and China in the market society; truth claims and political unconscious; “post-socialist modernity” in the age of globalization. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese film studies, as well as other disciplines, such as political science, sociology, anthropology, etc.

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100070243X

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Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

By: Xiaoping Wang

In Postsocialist Conditions: Idea and History in China’s “Independent Cinema,” 1988-2008, WANG Xiaoping offers a comprehensive survey and trenchant critique of China’s “Independent Cinema” by the sixth-generation auteurs. By showing the multi-valence of the postsocialist conditions in contemporary Chinese society, their films articulate a new cultural-political logic in postsocialist China, which is also the logic of the market in this era of neoliberal transformation, brought about by the forces of marketization since the late 1980s. The directors laudably show the spirits of humanism and the humanitarian concerns of the underclass, yet the shortage and repudiation of class analysis prohibits the artists from exploring the social contradictions and the cause of class restructuration.

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9004385584

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9789004385580

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

Ideology and Utopia in China’s New Wave Cinema investigates the ways in which New Wave filmmakers represent China in this age of neoliberal reform. Analyzing this paradigm shift in independent cinema, this text explores the historicity of the cinematic form and its cultural-political visions. Through a close reading of the narrative strategy of key films in New Wave Cinema, Xiaoping Wang studies the movement’s impact on film, literature, culture and politics.

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268

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Springer

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3319911406

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9783319911403

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

By: Xiaoping Lin

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Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

By: Xiaoping Lin

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author’s experience in Beijing and New York—global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chinese visual culture—this work situates selected artworks and films in the context of Chinese nationalism and post-socialism and against the background of the capitalist globalization that has so radically affected contemporary China. It juxtaposes and compares artists and independent filmmakers from a number of intertwined perspectives, particularly in their shared avant-garde postures and perceptions. Xiaoping Lin provides illuminating close readings of a variety of visual texts and artistic practices, including installation, performance, painting, photography, video, and film. Throughout he sustains a theoretical discussion of representative artworks and films and succeeds in delineating a variegated postsocialist cultural landscape saturated by market forces, confused values, and lost faith. This refreshing approach is due to Lin’s ability to tackle both Chinese art and cinema rigorously within a shared discursive space. He, for example, aptly conceptualizes a central thematic concern in both genres as "postsocialist trauma" aggravated by capitalist globalization. By thus focusing exclusively on the two parallel and often intersecting movements or phenomena in the visual arts, his work brings about a fruitful dialogue between the narrow field of traditional art history and visual studies more generally. Children of Marx and Coca-Cola will be a major contribution to China studies, art history, film studies, and cultural studies. Multiple audiences—specialists, teachers, and students in these disciplines, as well as general readers with an interest in contemporary Chinese society and culture—will find that this work fulfills an urgent need for sophisticated analysis of China’s cultural production as it assumes a key role in capitalist globalization.

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330

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824833368

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9780824833367

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

By: Xiaoping Cong

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Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

By: Xiaoping Cong

During the educational and social transformations in politically tumultuous early twentieth-century China, Chinese teacher's schools played a critical role. They were a force in the changes that swept Chinese society, bridging Chinese and Western ideals, empowering women, and contributing to rural modernization. This innovative account examines the social and political aspects and impacts of these schools, their role in a society in transistion, and their production of grassroots forces that lead to the Communist Revolution.

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318

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UBC Press

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0774841338

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9780774841337

Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

By: Xiaoping Cong

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Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

By: Xiaoping Cong

Explores the social and cultural significance of Chinese communist legal practice in constructing marriage and gender relations in the turbulent period from 1940 to 1960.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107148561

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9781107148567

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Renaissance or Rehabilitation?

By: Xiaoping Wang

Combining anatomies of textual examples with broader contextual considerations related with the social, political and economic developments of post-Mao China, Xiaoping Wang intends to explore newly emerging social and cultural trends in contemporary China, and find the truth content of Chinese society and culture in the age of global capitalism. Through in-depth textual analyses covering a variety of media, ranging from fiction, poetry, film to theoretical works as well as cultural phenomena which mirror social and cultural occurrences and reflect the present ideological proclivities of the Chinese society, this study offers timely interpretations of China in the age of globalization, its political inclinations, social fashions and cultural tendencies, and provides thought-provoking messages of China’s socio-economic and political reality.

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9004461191

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9789004461192

China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Jia Zhangke's Filmic World

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Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents

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Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

By: Xiaoping Lin

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Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

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University of Hawaii Press

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Postsocialist Conditions

Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

By: Xiaoping Wang

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Ideas and History in China’s "Independent Cinema", 1988-2008

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China in the Age of Global Capitalism

China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Postsocialist Conditions

Postsocialist Conditions

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

Teachers' Schools and the Making of the Modern Chinese Nation-State, 1897-1937

Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

Marriage, Law and Gender in Revolutionary China

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

Chinese Literature and Culture in the Age of Global Capitalism

China in the Age of Global Capitalism

China in the Age of Global Capitalism

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Postsocialist Conditions

Postsocialist Conditions

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