Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
Bk. 1	Literary and Cultural Interventions in the New Era	33
Pt. 1	Cultural Discourse	35
1	Main Trends in the Cultural Fever	35
2	On Some Motifs in the Cultural Discussion	71
Pt. 2	Literary Discourse	101
3	Literature of the New Era: Historiography and Ideology	101
4	The Modernist Intervention	122
5	The Avant-Garde Intervention	143
6	Fable of Self-Consciousness: Ge Fei and Some Motifs in Meta-Fiction	163
Bk. 2	Politics of the Visual Encounter: Reading the Fifth Generation	201
	Introduction	203
Pt. 3	The Discourse of Modern Cinema	215
7	Generational Politics: What Is the Fifth Generation?	215
8	The Making of a Modern Cinematic Language	232
Pt. 4	Allegories of the Social Landscape	267
9	Ramifications and Allegories	267
10	A Critical Account of Chen Kaige's King of the Children	282
11	Ideology and Utopia in Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum	306
Pt. 5	The Politics of the New Cinema	329
12	Filmmaker as Artist: The Origins of Modernist Subjectivity	329
13	National Cinema?	347
14	Positions in the Field	367
	Notes	391
	Index	417