Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films: attachment in the age of global visibility

Preface and Acknowledgments

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Introduction

Part I. Remembrance of Things Past

1. The Seductions of Homecoming: Temptress Moon and the Question of Origins

2. Nostalgia of the New Wave: Romance, Domesticity, and the Longing for Oneness in Happy Together

3. The Everyday in The Road Home and In the Mood for Love: From the Legacy of Socialism to the Potency of Yuan

Part II. Migrants' Lore, Women's Options

4. Autumn Hearts: Filming Feminine "Psychic Interiority" in Song of the Exile

5. By Way of Mass Commodities: Love in Comrades, Almost a Love Story

6. All Chinese Families Are Alike: Biopolitics in Eat a Bowl of Tea and The Wedding Banquet

Part III. Picturing the Life to Come...

7. The Political Economy of Vision in Happy Times and Not One Less; or, A Different Type of Migration

8. "Human" in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft

9. The Enigma of Incest and the Staging of Kinship Family Remains in The River

Postscript (Inspired by Brokeback Mountain): "The Juice"; or, "The Great Chinese Theme"

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Index