Filming the Everyday

Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Yingjin Zhang is Distinguished Professor of Literature and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Praise for From Underground to Independent: A welcome addition to scholarship on contemporary non-state Chinese filmmaking and its context both in China and globally. . . . This accessible book should appeal to a broad audience. Highly Recommended.

• AcknowledgmentsPart I: Cultural Context1. Introduction: Documenting China Independently, by Paul G. Pickowicz and Yingjin Zhang2. Who’s Afraid of the Documentary Camera? Refiguring Reality, Memory, and Power in Chinese Independent Documentary, by Yingjin Zhang3. For Whom Does the Director Speak? The Ethics of Representation in Documentary Film Criticism, by Yomi Braester,Part II: Rural Reconfigurations4. From Root-Searching to Grassroots: Returning to the Countryside in Contemporary Chinese Fiction and Independent Documentary Film, by Angie Chau5. Zou Xueping’s Postsocialist Homecoming, by Paul G. PickowiczPart III: Embodied Filmmaking6. Looking Back while Marching Forward: Reconfiguration of Selfhood in the Folk Memory Project, by Tong Wang7. The Memory Projectand Other Ways of Knowing: Filmmaking, Affect, and Embodied Knowledge, by Laura KisselPart IV: Documentary Enactments8. Gendering Intersubjectivity in New Chinese Documentary: Feminist Multiplicity and Vulnerable Masculinity in Postsocialist China, by Alvin Wong9. From Bumming to Roaming: Xu Tong’s The Drifters Trilogy, by Yiman Wang10. Documenting through Reenacting: Revisiting the Performative Mode in Chinese Independent Documentaries, by Hongjian WangAppendix: Michael Berry, “Memory/Document: In Dialogue with Wu Wenguang’s Memory Project” Documentary FilmographyAbout the Contributors