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).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Articulating the Logic of China’s Postsocialist Society in the Era of Neo-Liberal Transformation1 China in Transition: Jia Zhangke’s “Hometown Trilogy”2 Postmodern Anomie or Postsocialist Alienation?3 Problematic Narration of the Historical Experience of Working Class4 Portraying the Abject and the Sublime of the Subaltern5 Exhibiting the Confusion and Melancholy of Artists6 Women’s Changing Destiny in the Post-Revolutionary Fantasyland7 In the Name of Love: Ideology of the Elite Class8 Whither China? Wang Chao’s “China Trilogy”Conclusion: On the Historicity of the Sixth-Generation Auteurs and China’s “Independent” CinemaFilmographySelected BibliographyIndex