Children of Marx and Coca-Cola : Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema / Xiaoping Lin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Reading Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema in Context -- Part 1. Re-creating Urban Space in Avant-garde Art -- 1. Discourse and Displacement: Contemplating Beijing's Urban Landscape -- 2. Beijing: Yin Xiuzhen's the Ruined City -- 3. Globalism or Nationalism? Cai Guoqiang Zhang Huan Xu Bing in New York -- Part 2. China's Lost Youth through the Lens of Independent Cinema -- 4. New Chinese Cinema of the "Sixth Generation": A Distant Cry of Forsaken Children -- 5. Behind Chinese Walls: The Uncanny Power of Matriarchy in Wang Chao's Anyang Orphan -- 6. The Imagery of Postsocialist Trauma in Peacock, Shanghai Dreams, and Stolen Life -- Part 3. In Quest of Meaning in a Spiritual Void: Film and Video -- 7. Jia Zhangke's Cinematic Trilogy: A Journey across the Ruins of Post-Mao China -- 8. The Video Works of Yang Fudong: An Ultimate Escape from a Global Nightmare -- 9. Ning Hao's Incense: A Curious Tale of Earthly Buddhism -- Postlude: Chinese Artists and Filmmakers at the Beginning of a New Century.

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