2 Working the System filmmakers to create, maintain, and adjust their newfound
subjectivities under this new sociopolitical system. To this end, this book focuses on a …

1949–1966, Qiliang He presents an alternative paradigm to shed light on the lived
experiences and careers of the following five post-1949 Shanghai-based filmmakers: Zheng …

AbstractSince the turn of the century, there has been an upturn of cultural production about
the Third Front (1964-80) within China, yet mainstream knowledge of this military-industrial …

New Chinese Cinema: Challenging Representations examines the" search for roots" films
that emerged from China in the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution. Sheila Cornelius …

Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives endeavours to challenge two popular
narratives of CCP history: one that eulogises the party and another that demonises it. Edited …

In Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China,
1949–1966, Qiliang He inquired into the making of the new citizenry in Mao-era China …

This chapter delineates the shifting contours of Chinese cinema from 1979 to 2010, an era
marked by contending designations–“post-Mao,”“postsocialist,”“reform and opening,”“ …

What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party's political project of shaping
ideal socialist citizens in the early People's Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject …

Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled
with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed …

After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 1982, directors like Chen Kaige and
Zhang Yimou revolutionized Chinese cinema with Red Sorghum, Farewell My Concubine …