Foreword, Chris Berry Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration INTRODUCTION: China's Cinema, Keith B. Wagner, Tianqi Yu, Luke Vulpiani PART I. New Technologies CHAPTER 1 Tianqi YU a Communicative Practice: Female First-Person Documentary in Twenty-first Century China CHAPTER 2 Paola VOCI Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix, and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies' Other Visual Pleasures CHAPTER 3 Weihua WU Individuality, State Discourse, and Visual Representation: Imagination and Practices of the in Chinese Animation CHAPTER 4 Bingfeng DONG of Exhibition: Film in Chinese Contemporary Art PART II. Aesthetics CHAPTER 5 Luke VULPIANI Goodbye to the Grim Real, Hello to What Comes Next: Moment of Passage from the Sixth Generation to the iGeneration CHAPTER 6 Ling ZHANG Digitizing City Symphony, Stabilizing the Shadow of Time: Montage and Temporal-Spatial Construction in San Yuan Li CHAPTER 7 Dan GAO From Pirate to Kino-eye: A Genealogical Tale of Film Re-Distribution in China CHAPTER 8 Keith B. WAGNER Xue Jianqiang as Reckless Documentarian: Underdevelopment and Juvenile Crime in post-WTO China PART III. Social Engagement CHAPTER 9 Yiman WANG Of Animals and Men: Toward A Theory of Docu-ani-mentary CHAPTER 10 Ying QIAN Working with Rubble: Montage, Tweets, and the Reconstruction of an Activist Cinema CHAPTER 11 Jia TAN Provincializing the Chinese Mediascape: Cantonese Digital Activism in Southern China PART IV. Platforms and Politics CHAPTER 12 Jeesoon HONG with Matthew D. JOHNSON Shanghai Expo and Screen-Spaces: Big Screens and New Collectivity CHAPTER 13 Ma RAN Regarding the Grassroots Chinese Independent Film Festivals: Regional Assemblage and Abnormal Film Networking CHAPTER 14 Matthew D. JOHNSON Wu Wenguang and the NGO Aesthetic CHAPTER 15 Xiaomei CHEN The Cinematic Deng Xiaoping: Reform or Restoration? PART V: Online Audiences CHAPTER 16 Ralph PARFECT You Must Believe There is Such a Person in This World: Internet Contention of Zhang Yimou's Sexual Storytelling in Under the Hawthorn Tree/Shanzhashu Zhi Lian CHAPTER 17 Xiao LIU From the Glaring Sun to the Flying Bullets: Dilemma of Elliptical Memories in post- Era Chinese Cinema Notes on Contributors Index