Volume 14 - Issue 3 - 2019
Introduction to Special Issue of "China's Sixth-Generation Directors and Their Films" ―Exploring the multifaceted dimensions of China's "Independent Cinema"
Xiaoping WANG
Huaqiao University, China
Although China's "independent cinema" produced by the so-called "Sixth-Generation auteurs" was (and might still be) an academic hot issue, in recent years there are very few researches. Thus far, most of the published works are collections of individual papers. Before the end of the first decade of the 21th century, four books related to China's independent cinema came out year by year, starting from 2006....
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China’s “New Wave Cinema”: A Reflection of the Sixth-Generation Auteurs and Their Productions
Xiaoping WANG
Huaqiao University, China
Whether or not the sixth-generation directors have disappeared (or whether or not they have ever existed) is moot. However, we can ponder the following questions: In what circumstances did the group of auteurs emerge? What kind of social reality was transcribed, projected, and articulated in the movies they produced? The cinema that this generation created has been compared to Italian Neorealism and French New Wave, and to a certain extent could be regarded as China’s cinematic “new wave”. ...
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The Search for Family in Post-Socialist China:
A Study of The Orphan of Anyang (2001)
Justine Gustafson
Indian Council of World Affairs, New Delhi, India
This paper looks at the film The Orphan of Anyang for examples on how the modern Chinese family is constructed in post-socialist China. From this film, viewers can see how the characters in the film who represent individuals in the underbelly of Chinese society struggle to construct families based on traditional Chinese cultural influences as well as western influences. This return to tradition as well as the move towards westernization of the Chinese family is the result of the fall of communism, where individuals were supported by the state....
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Choices of Visual Urban Spaces: The Binary Turns of Class Discourses in Contemporary “Chinese Urban Cinema” since 1990s
Yishui CHEN
Beijing Normal University, China
This paper aims to explore the urban space and the discursive transformation in Chinese contemporary urban cinema since the Cold War with a historical and cultural analysis. Through a research of the contents and forms of the Chinese urban cinema from 1990 to 2019, it finds that this cinema shows a process of discursive development from urban fringe to urban center, and from the under-class to the upper-class....
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Review of Postsocialist Conditions: Ideas and History in China’s “Independent Cinema”, 1988-2008 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2018), by Xiaoping Wang
Zhen Zhang
Union College, NY, USA
China’s “independent cinema” produced by the Chinese “sixth-generation auteurs” is a cultural phenomenon that draws much attention from Western critics. While there are abundant scholarly articles studying particular directors and films, book-length treatment of the subject matter is scarce. Memory, Subjectivity and Independent Chinese Cinema, written by Qi Wang and published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014, appears to be the first monograph dealing with this subject. ...
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