Chapter Four. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle- Class Culture: White- Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction. The Trouble with Naming: Middle- Class Culture, Petty- Bourgeois Sensibility, and Zhuang 1
5. Chapter One. Dirty Fashion: Ma Ke’s Fashion Exhibit Useless (2007), Jia Zhangke’s Documentary Film Useless (2007), and Cognitive Mapping 35
6. Chapter Two. The High- Quality Suit, Class Struggle, and Cultural Revolution: The Politics of Consumption in Xie Tieli’s Film Never Forget (1964) 56
7. 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
8. Chapter Four. Imag(in)ing the Chinese Middle- Class Culture: White- Collar Work, Romantic Love, and Fashion Consumption 135
9. Chapter Five. Between Production and Consumption: Chinese Migrant Factory Workers in Documentary Films and Ethnographic Works 163
10. Chapter Six. The Psychic Life of Rubbish: On Wang Jiuliang’s Documentary Film Beijing Besieged by Waste (2010) 191
11. NOTES 215
12. WORKS CITED 241
13. INDEX 257