Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Series Editor’s Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction: From Fenyang to the World 1
6. 1 A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man 19
7. 2 The Hometown Trilogy 46
8. 3 Documenting Destruction and Building Worlds 87
9. 4 Film as Social Justice 113
10. 5 Return to Jianghu 133
11. 6 Toward an Accented Cinema 157
12. Coda To the Sea 182
13. Afterword 193
14. Notes 197
15. Jia Zhangke Filmography 205
16. Bibliography 207
17. Index 211