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Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China by Yingjin Zhang (review)

Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China by Yingjin Zhang (review) and Nanlong Uprising of 1797, Empire and Identity in Guizhou will be of interest to scholars of the Qing colonial enterprise. This book is also highly recommended to those with a general interest in Chinese society of the eighteenth century. Lei Duan Lei Duan is a PhD candidate in history at Syracuse University, specializing in modern Chinese history. His dissertation is about private gun ownership in China from the late nineteenth century to the formation of the People's Republic. Yingjin Zhang. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2009. 272 pp. Hardcover $49.00, isbn 978-0-8248-3337-4. Paperback $26.00, isbn 978-0-8248-3408-1. Yingjin Zhang's new book, which examines the cinematic scene in China in the age of globalization and postsocialism, employs the unfamiliar term "polylocality" in its title. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China is a solid, wellreasoned account of a very new condition in Chinese cinema, one that amply justifies the neologism in its title. Although Pierre Bourdieu is not explicitly referred to, the cinematic scene that Zhang maps out is, indeed, a dynamic field full of contention, cooption, and negotiation as each agent takes up a social position using its available http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China by Yingjin Zhang (review)

China Review International , Volume 20 (1) – Jan 22, 2013

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and Nanlong Uprising of 1797, Empire and Identity in Guizhou will be of interest to scholars of the Qing colonial enterprise. This book is also highly recommended to those with a general interest in Chinese society of the eighteenth century. Lei Duan Lei Duan is a PhD candidate in history at Syracuse University, specializing in modern Chinese history. His dissertation is about private gun ownership in China from the late nineteenth century to the formation of the People's Republic. Yingjin Zhang. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2009. 272 pp. Hardcover $49.00, isbn 978-0-8248-3337-4. Paperback $26.00, isbn 978-0-8248-3408-1. Yingjin Zhang's new book, which examines the cinematic scene in China in the age of globalization and postsocialism, employs the unfamiliar term "polylocality" in its title. Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China is a solid, wellreasoned account of a very new condition in Chinese cinema, one that amply justifies the neologism in its title. Although Pierre Bourdieu is not explicitly referred to, the cinematic scene that Zhang maps out is, indeed, a dynamic field full of contention, cooption, and negotiation as each agent takes up a social position using its available

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China Review InternationalUniversity of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jan 22, 2013

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