After the Post–Cold War

Dai Jinhua is Professor of Chinese Literature and Language at Peking University and the author of Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, as well as numerous other books in Chinese.Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

• Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  viiAcknowledgments  xiEditor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel  xiiiIntroduction / Translated by Jie Li  1Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen  252. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo  47Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle  674. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li  91Part III. The Spy Genre5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery  1096. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  127Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl  141Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel  160Notes  167Selected Works of Dai Jinhua  181Bibliography  183Translators' Biographies  189Index  191

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