Postsocialist Conditions - Ideas and History in China's Independent Cinema, 1988-2008

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.

About the author

WANG Xiaoping, Ph.D. (2010), is Chair Professor of Chinese studies at Huaqiao University and Adjunct Professor of the Institute of Arts and Humanities of Shanghai Jiaotong University, China. He has published more than 100 articles and numerous monographs, including Ideology and Utopia in China's New Wave Cinema: Globalization and Its Chinese Discontents (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Product details

• Authors: Xiaoping Wang
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.09.2018
• EAN: 9789004385542
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38554-2
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern Chi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories