Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema

About the Author, Production Notes, Back Cover

About the Author Xiaoping Lin, who received his doctorate in art history from Yale University, has published extensively on contemporary Chinese art and cinema in scholarly journals such as Third Text, Leonardo, and ArtAsiaPacific. He teaches in the Department of Art, Queens College, the City University of New York. Production Notes for Lin / CHILDREN OF MARX AND COCA-COLA Interior designed by University of Hawai‘i Press production staff with text in Minion Pro and display in Seria Sans LF. Composition by Lucille C. Aono Printing and binding by Sheridan Books, Inc. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China Yingjin Zhang 2009, est. 312 pages, illus. Cloth: ISBN 978-0-8248-3337-4 In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes “polylocality” as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema paradigm, Zhang calls for comparative studies of underdeveloped areas beyond the imperative of transnationalism. The book begins by addressing theories and practices related to space, place, and polylocality in contemporary China before focusing on the space of scholarship and urging scholars to move beyond the current paradigm and explore transnational and comparative film studies. This is followed by a chapter that concentrates on the space of production and surveys the changing landscape of postsocialist filmmaking and the transformation of China’s urban generation of directors. Next is an examination of the space of polylocality and the cinematic mappings of Beijing and a persistent “reel” contact with polylocality in hinterland China. In the fifth chapter Zhang explores the space of subjectivity in independent film and video and contextualizes experiments by young directors with various documentary styles. Chapter 6 calls attention to the space of performance and addresses issues of media and mediation by way of two kinds of playing: the first with documentary as troubling information, the second with piracy as creative intervention. The concluding chapter offers an overview of Chinese cinema in the new century and provides production and reception statistics. Combining inspired critical insights, original observations, and new information, Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China is a significant work on current Chinese film and a must-read for film scholars and anyone seriously interested in cinema more generally or contemporary Chinese culture. Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822-1888 UNIVERSITYof HAWAI‘I PRESS ISBN 978-0-8248-3336-7 9 780824 833367 9 0 0 0 0 www.uhpress.hawaii.edu JACKET ART Wang Guangyi, Great Criticism, oil on canvas, 1993. Courtesy of the artist. JACKET DESIGN Julie Matsuo-Chun C H I N E S E A R T & F I L M Also in C R I T I C A L I N T E R V E N T I O N S ...