01 May / The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century edited by Zhang Zhen [in Bloomsbury Review]
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 Yimou, in spite of his established talent, was so 20th-century … move over and make room for the latest group of cinematic upstarts – the latest auteurs-in-training to reveal the fast-changing, quickly developing nation that is the new China.
Review: “In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: New & Notable Books,” The Bloomsbury Review, May/June 2007
Readers: Adult
Published: 2007