The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century edited by Zhang Zhen [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Nonfiction, Repost
A collection of 13 illuminating essays about the so-called “Urban Generation” of young filmmakers who came of age in post-Tiananmen Square China, creating an alternative, independent cinema eschewing the demands of the still-powerful state-owned studios. Zhang...