Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1. Emergence: Colonial War, Nationalist Revolution, and Documentary’s Beginnings 26
6. 2. Bombs and Seafarings: Documentaries Hard and Soft 60
7. 3. Winning Realities: Wartime Propaganda and Solidarity 102
8. 4. When Taylorism Met Revolutionary Romanticism: Great Leap Temporalities 145
9. 5. The Uncertainty of Political Knowledge: Documentary in Crisis 176
10. 6. Rehabilitation: Documentary in the Post- Mao Decade 213
11. Epilogue: Notes on Chinese Independent Documentary 248
12. Notes 255
13. Index 293