Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964)

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Hui, Calvin. "Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964)". The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2021, pp. 56-95. https://doi.org/10.7312/hui-19248-004

Hui, C. (2021). Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964). In The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China (pp. 56-95). New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press. https://doi.org/10.7312/hui-19248-004

Hui, C. 2021. Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964). The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, pp. 56-95. https://doi.org/10.7312/hui-19248-004

Hui, Calvin. "Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964)" In The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China, 56-95. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7312/hui-19248-004

Hui C. Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964). In: The Art of Useless: Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China. New York Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press; 2021. p.56-95. https://doi.org/10.7312/hui-19248-004

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Frontmatter i
CONTENTS vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
Introduction. The Trouble with Naming: Middle- Class Culture, Petty- Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang 1
Chapter One. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 35
Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964) 56
Chapter Three. “Mao’s Children Are Wearing Fashion!”: Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo’s Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) 96
Chapter Four. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle- Class Culture: White- Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 135
Chapter Five. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 163
Chapter Six. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang’s Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) 191
NOTES 215
WORKS CITED 241
INDEX 257

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Frontmatter i
CONTENTS vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
Introduction. The Trouble with Naming: Middle- Class Culture, Petty- Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang 1
Chapter One. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 35
Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964) 56
Chapter Three. “Mao’s Children Are Wearing Fashion!”: Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and Modernization Politics in Huang Zumo’s Film Romance on Lu Mountain (1980) 96
Chapter Four. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle- Class Culture: White- Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 135
Chapter Five. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 163
Chapter Six. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang’s Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) 191
NOTES 215
WORKS CITED 241
INDEX 257

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