Screen Media and the Construction of Nostalgia in Post-Socialist China

​Zhun Gu was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Nottingham in December 2019 and is now a research assistant working at Fudan University. His research focuses on memory studies and intercultural communication in Chinese screen media.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Nostalgia and Guilt in “Educated Youth” Films: Xie Fei’s A Mongolian Tale (1995) and Huo Jianqi’s Nuan (2003).- Chapter 2: Nostalgia for a Communal Lifestyle in Urban Films: Shower (1999) and 24 City (2008).- Chapter 3: An Ahistorical Nostalgia on Youth Screen: So Young (2013), With You (2016) and Better Days (2019).- Chapter 4: Rhetoric of Nostalgia from the Harmonious Society to the Community of Shared Future.- Conclusion.