contents -- China and the Global Biopolitical Order -- Literature and Biopolitics -- Waking to Global Modernity The Classical Tale in the Late Qing -- When Mimosa Blossoms Blockage of Male Desire in Yu Dafu and Zhang Xianliang -- Body Writing Beauty Writers at the Turn of the Twenty- fi rst Century -- Art From the National to the Diasporic -- The Naked Body Politic in Postsocialist China and the Chinese Diaspora -- "Beautiful Violence" War, Peace, Globalization -- Sinophone Cinema and Postsocialist Television -- Hollywood, China, Hong Kong Representing the Chinese Nation- State in Filmic Discourse -- History, Memory, Nostalgia Rewriting Socialism in Film and Television Drama -- Dialect and Modernity in Twenty- fi rst- Century Sinophone Cinema -- Cityscape in Multimedia -- Tear Down the City Reconstructing Urban Space in Cinema, Photography, Video -- Chinese Modernity and the Capitalist World- System -- Answering the Question, What Is Chinese Postsocialism? -- notes -- chinese glossary of names, titles, and terms -- bibliography -- index -- about the author.