Consumerism is a central feature of urbanism in China and has been actively promoted as a
sign of urbanity in the official rhetoric and mass media. This urban ideology is exemplified by …

Abstract Shenzhen, the first Special Economic Zone established in 1979 in southern China,
has transformed from a global electronics manufacturing hub and counterfeiting capital into …

Shanghai's Pudong financial district is known for its spectacular skyline, which Michelle
Huang has referred to as 'a copy of a global city'–a reading that this article pushes further …

In Cinema Approaching Reality, Victor Fan brings together, for the first time, Chinese and
Euro-American film theories and theorists to engage in critical debates about film in …

Extending recent seminal studies that focus on networks of multiple actors in Chinese civil
society instead of state-society dichotomy, this article explores independent film …

In the popular sector of international media, especially visual media such as television,
China is represented as embracing capitalism at a phenomenal speed, swept along by …

This A&Q section takes its cue from a statement that is as pervasive as it is seemingly self-
evident: China is the future. This bit of geopolitical folk wisdom, widely shared across …

Built on visual and running/walking ethnography, this article analyzes visual traces left on
remnant danwei walls in postsocialist China. The article considers danwei walls as yiji …

This chapter examines the large screen to consider new approaches to Chinese cinema.
The first section examines the large screen as a cultural industry and social institution by …

My dissertation is a cultural history of urban cinema produced in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
the People's Republic of China at the turn of the millennium. I delineate significant …