China in the age of global capitalism : Jia Zhangke's filmic world / by Wang, Xiaoping, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a lyricist of China's "postsocialist modernity" in the age of neoliberal transformation -- Recording human affection within social transmutation: portrayal of early reform China in Platform (2000) -- Morality and love in post-revolutionary China: a pickpocket's being and nothingness in Xiao Wu (1997) -- Hedonism and nihilism in the consumerist wasteland: unknown Pleasures (2002) as a fable of drifters in a market society -- Postmodern paradise or postsocialist fantasy?: new proletariat and the commodity world of alienation in The world (2004) -- Revolutionary realism or socialist realism?…”