1st Edition
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema Globalization on Speed
Introduction: "Culture and Contemporary Chinese Cinema in the Second Coming of Capitalism" Part I: Homo Economicus: Individual Liberty and Market Dependency 1. "Primitive Accumulation and the Emergence of the Liberal Subject in the People’s Republic: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and Zhou Xiaowen’s Ermo" 2. "Crazy English with a Chinese Face: Zhang Yuan’s Documentary on the Neoliberal Pedagogy of the Self" Part II: Homo Sentimentalis: The Transformation of Family and Intimacy 3. Neoliberalism’s Family Values: (Re)production and (Re)creation in Ang Lee’s Trilogy and Zhang Yimou’s Happy Times 4. The Deregulation of Affect in Hou Hsiao-hsien and Yang De-chang Part III: Homo Ethicus: Towards Ecological Justice 5. "The World of Jia Zhangke Viewed: Neorealist Aesthetics against Neoliberal Logics" 6. "Abiding by Nature’s Time: The Cautionary of Cannibal Capitalism in Fruit Chan’s Dumplings"
Biography
David Leiwei Li is Professor of English and the Collins Professor of the Humanities at the University of Oregon, USA.
"Approaching culture anthropologically and aesthetically, Li tasks himself with exploring a hypercompressed period of rapid change wherein China not only achieved in 'three decades what took three centuries in the West' (8), but also strove to wholly overhaul and reconstitute both the State and Subject."
David H. Fleming, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
"Li’s historical analysis is painted in very broad brushstrokes, or what he calls ‘capacious categorical umbrellas’ (9). He argues that at the time of the Opium Wars, capitalism was exercising an irresistible power to ‘remake the planet and its people after its own image’ (2)."
Mike Walsh, Flinders University
