Postsocialist Conditions ― Ideas and History in China Independent Cinema 1988-2008

Xiaoping explores the historical and narrative conditions that have given rise to China's new cinema since the 1980s; its narrative content and aesthetic innovation; and the social, cultural, and political messages it means to convey. He covers China in transition: Jia Zhangke's Hometown Trilogy, postmodern anomie or postsocialist alienation, problematic narration of the historical experience of the working class, portraying the abject and the sublime of the subaltern, exhibiting the confusion and melancholy of artist, women's changing destiny in the post-revolutionary fantasyland, in the name of love: ideology of the elite class, and whither China: Wang Chao's China Trilogy. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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).