7. History, Memory, Nostalgia: Rewriting Socialism in Film and Television Drama

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: China and the Global Biopolitical Order 1
6. Part 1. Literature and Biopolitics
7. 1. Waking to Global Modernity: The Classical Tale in the Late Qing 23
8. 2. When Mimosa Blossoms: Blockage of Male Desire in Yu Dafu and Zhang Xianliang 38
9. 3. Body Writing: Beauty Writers at the Turn of the Twenty-fi rst Century 53
10. Part 2. Art: From the National to the Diasporic 69
11. 4. The Naked Body Politic in Postsocialist China and the Chinese Diaspora 71
12. 5. “Beautiful Violence”: War, Peace, Globalization 93
13. Part 3. Sinophone Cinema and Postsocialist Television
14. 6. Hollywood, China, Hong Kong: Representing the Chinese Nation-State in Filmic Discourse 115
15. 7. History, Memory, Nostalgia: Rewriting Socialism in Film and Television Drama 130
16. 8. Dialect and Modernity in Twenty-fi rst- Century Sinophone Cinema 150
17. Part 4. Cityscape in Multimedia
18. 9. Tear Down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Cinema, Photography, Video 167
19. Historical Conclusion: Chinese Modernity and the Capitalist World-System 191
20. Postscript: Answering the Question, What Is Chinese Postsocialism? 204
21. Notes 211
22. Chinese Glossary 233
23. Bibliography 241
24. Index 255
25. About the Author 265