Investigating what has been called the mise-en-scene of Capitalism's Second Coming in
China, this essay explores how cinematic principles have become divorced from the …

This book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the “becoming
cinema” of Chinese cities, societies, and subjectivities. Set in the wake of China's radical …

Urbanization has been fueling massive migrations across various regions in China,
redrawing its physiognomy as much as patterns of relations among all its inhabitants. Amid …

Although truly singular artworks emerging from distinct creative universes, Wang Shu's
Ningbo Historic Museum (2008) and Jia Zhangke's Shanghai World Expo film Hai shang …

By way of a peripatetic journey through the French pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai
International Exposition, this article queries what the experience of the pavilion may have …

Feng Xiaogang, the'Chinese Spielberg', produces huge blockbusters and hilarious
comedies directed at a broad audience. Although his work does not strictly deal with …

This paper explores the intensification of social hostilities between Hong Kongers and
mainland Chinese tourists and immigrants. Recent years have seen an aggressive …

This article will examine the case of National Theatre of China, one of the most iconic
buildings that have been looming in the skyline of Chinese metropolises in recent years …

Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional
Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China …

This interdisciplinary and discursive PhD thesis investigates how urban aesthetics and
imaginaries can actively grasp, shape, and foresee urban space-making in Mainland China …