Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics

Index

index Abandoned Capital (Feidu) (Jia), 51 Agamben, Giorgio, 3, 72 Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari), 5 APEC Cityscape Fireworks (Cai), 103– 104 Auto-Destruct (Cai), 106 Battleship Potemkin, 7 Beautiful Images in Focus (Meili jing xiang) (Hong Hao), 18, 182–183, 185 Beautiful New World, A (Meili xin shijie ) (Shi Runjiu), 18, 170–171, 177 Beautiful Violence (Meili de baoli) (Qin), 17 beauty writers (meinü zuojia), 54, 62–67 Becker, Wolfgang, 148 Beijing: Hong Hao and, 182; and impact of bars/beauty parlors/massage parlors , 187, 190; libidinal economy and, 13; and urban reconstruction, 168–169 Beijing Doll (Beijing wawa) (Chun), 63 Beijing Tour Guide (Youjing zhinan) (Hong Hao), 182–183 beimei, 8 Be There or Be Square (Bujian busan) (Feng), 176 “Biography of Mary” (Meili xiaozhuan) (Wang), 30–33 Blind Shaft (Mang jing) (Li Yang), 157 Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang), 131 body art: environment of China and, 79–82; historical overview of, 72–75; nudity as beauty/purity, 74–75; space construction/destruction and, 79–80. See also Ma Liuming; Zhang Huan body writing (shenti xiezuo), 54 Book from the Sky, A (Tian shu) (Xu), 88 Book of Great Union, The (Datong shu) (Kang), 201 Book of Rites, The (Liji), 200 Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows (Cai), 102–103 Cai Chusheng, New Woman (Xin nüxing ), 152 Cai Guo-Qiang: art collection of, 106– 111; Auto-Destruct, 106; Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows, 102–103; Dragon: Explosion on Issey Miyake Clothing, 101; Inopportune, 105–106; international conflicts and, 17; Light Cycle, 105–106; Project for Extraterrestrials No. 32: Dragon Sight Sees Vienna, 101; Project for Heiankyo 1200th Anniversary: Celebration from Chang’an, 101; Project to Add 10,000 Meters to the Great Wall, 101–103; Red Flag, 107, 109; Rent Collection Courtyard, 107, 110–111; and symbolism of gunpowder, 100–106; Transient Rainbow, 104–105; Venice’s Rent Collection Courtyard, 107, 109–110 Candy (Tang) (Mian Mian), 54–56 Capital in Ruins (Feidu) (Jia), 51 capitalism: global 5–6, Middle Kingdom (Zhongguo) and, 194–195; postsocialism and, 210; Qing Empire and, 194; Zheng He and, 192–193. See also economy Cell Phone (Shouji) (Feng), 150, 155–158 censorship, 54, 116,119 Chai (Demolition) (Wang), 18, 182 Chen Chong, 119–120 Chen, Joan (Chen Chong), 119–120 256 . i n d e x Chen Junyu, 151–152 Chen Kaige, 129, 135, 140, 172 Cheung, Maggie, 123–124, 159 Chinese Box, 117–119 Chinese-language cinema, 162–163. See also Sinophone cinema Chinese Noak’s Ark No. 2 (Gao), 185 Chinese socialism: and father figure in film, 140–144; legacy of, 130–133; The Marriage Certificate (Huang Jianxin) and, 136–138; and nostalgia in film, 144–149; The Road Home (Zhang) and, 133–136; Years of Burning Passion (Jiqing ranshao de suiyue) (Kang) and, 138–139 Ch’ing (Qing) fiction, emergence of self in, 39 chuanqi (tales of the extraordinary), 27, 32 Chun Shu, 63–64 Chungking Express (Chonqing senlin), 126 classical tales (wenyan xiaoshuo), as literary genre, 27–30 Commissioner Lin (Li Zexu), 122 commodity-houses (shangpin fang), 168 Comrades, Almost a Love Story (Tian mimi), 123–124 Copying the “Orchid Pavilion Preface” a Thousand Times (Shuxie yiqianbian Lantingxu) (Qiu), 92 Corliss, Richard, 119 courtesan fiction, 28 Courtyard Gallery (Beijing), 182, 184, 190 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee), 159 Cui Xiuwen, 18, 185–190 cultural imagery of film: dialect and, 150–151; extramarital affairs/divorce and, 174–177, 187 Cultural Revolution: capitalism and, 196; control of sexuality and, 51; generation of “educated youth” and, 132–133; The Marriage Certificate (or Who Cares?, Shui shuo wo bu zaihu) and, 136–137; Marxism and, 46 Dalai Lama, Red Corner and, 117–118 Dance Age, The (Tiaowu shidai), 150– 152, 161 Das Kapital (Marx), 45–46, 48 dating services, libidinal economy and, 6–7 datong (Great Commonwealth), 18–19, 200–204 Datong shu (The Book of Great Union) (Kang), 201 Delamu (Tian), 129 Demolition (Chai) (Wang), 18, 182 Deng Lijun (Teresa Tang), 123–124 Deng Xiaoping: neoliberalism and, 197; postsocialism and, 205–206; Reform and Openness policy of, 74, 204–205; Shanghai Dreams (Qinghong) and, 127–128; Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of, 55; xiaokang (moderate affluence) and, 200 depravity fiction (xiaxie xiaoshuo), 28 desire, ethnography of, 6–11 dialect: Anyang, 154–155; Baoji, 161; cultural imagery of film and, 150–151; economy and, 158; Fujianese (Hokkienese ), 151; Fukienese/Taiwanese, 150; Hebei, 155, 157–158; impact of globalization on, 160–161; Mandarin, 159–160; Minnanese, 151; modernity and, 152–155; Shaanxi, 161; Shanxi...