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

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments | ix Introduction: Reading Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema in Context | 1 PART 1 Re-creating Urban Space in Avant-garde Art 1. Discourse and Displacement: Contemplating Beijing’s Urban Landscape | 33 2. Beijing: Yin Xiuzhen’s The Ruined City | 57 3. Globalism or Nationalism? Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York | 72 PART 2 China’s LostYouth through the Lens of Independent Cinema 4. New Chinese Cinema of the “Sixth Generation”: A Distant Cry of Forsaken Children | 91 5. Behind Chinese Walls: The Uncanny Power of Matriarchy in Wang Chao’s Anyang Orphan | 115 6. The Imagery of Postsocialist Trauma in Peacock, Shanghai Dreams, and Stolen Life | 129 PART 3 In Quest of Meaning in a Spiritual Void: Film and Video 7. Jia Zhangke’s Cinematic Trilogy: A Journey across the Ruins of Post-Mao China | 147 8. The Video Works of Yang Fudong: An Ultimate Escape from a Global Nightmare | 165 9. Ning Hao’s Incense: A Curious Tale of Earthly Buddhism | 186 viii Contents Postlude: Chinese Artists and Filmmakers at the Beginning of a New Century | 205 Notes | 237 Chinese Glossary | 287 Filmography | 291 Bibliography | 293 Index | 307 ...