Index

Imagined China Literature and movie references are indexed in Italic.

Acting Mayor 75, 103, 199
actors 9, 14, 64, 106, 137, 192
actresses 3, 25, 62, 64, 137, 168, 223
Against the Light 55, 68, 116-17, 119, 121, 123-5, 176
agricultural production 85, 131, 133-4
agriculture 1, 51, 82, 135, 141, 145-6
anti-intellectual trends 175
Antonioni, Michelangelo 11-13
Anxious to Return 63
army 18-20, 24, 138, 207
articles 6, 11-12, 15, 22-3, 56, 60, 95, 97, 123-4, 153, 223-6; on Chinese cinema 6; critical 11; The Four Fundamental Principles Cannot Be Violated: 4 Review of the Film Script Unrequited Love 22; The Many Benefits of the Production Responsibility System Concerning Output 2; popular science 119; published 23; special review 22; A Unique and Colorful Newcomer 153; The Wrong Tendency of the Film Unrequited Love 23
artistic creations 16, 19-20, 28, 63, 76, 97, 113, 187-9, 199
artistic images 43, 95, 99, 110, 117, 129, 147, 213, 227
artistic practices 97, 188
artistic workers 3, 64, 159, 161
artists 1, 59, 84, 99-100, 102, 138-9, 145, 154, 159-60, 187, 192; of the 1980s embracing optimistic social trends 129; focus on the all-round development of people while constructing their representations of youth 116; literary 3; of the Shanghai Film Studio 26; and their responsibility to mirror the essence of society through artistic images 110
arts 3-5, 17, 24, 95-6, 122, 129-30, 132, 136, 159-60, 165, 187-8, 193; critics 96-7; and culture 160; departments 14; festivals 91; impressive 49; and literature 96, 187, 193
Asian Tigers 1, 56
At Middle Age 68, 165, 167-9, 184
At the Age Of 14 or 15 149
audiences 15-17, 43, 51-4, 61-4, 75, 99, 101, 108-9, 122-3, 133-4, 147-8, 166-7, 182-3, 190-2, 201-2; addressed with the poetic language of the 1980s 110; discovering the happiness of old days in dark theaters 30; gaining inspiration, education and hope from films 134; general 15, 96, 110; interpreting the symbolic value of the reform policies 79; peasant 137
authorities 87, 99, 109, 130, 134, 144, 171, 180, 189, 196, 199-200; absolute 112; censorship 203; intellectual 171; strategies 51

Bai Chen 125
The Baltimore Sun 60
Bao Guang 85, 170, 215-17
Baogang Steel Company 107
The Beach 116, 217-19
beauty 28, 30, 61-2, 78, 87, 106, 150, 153, 215, 223; female 83; human 26; of humanity 61, 87; of love 61; masculine 78; spiritual 61
Behind the Defendant 75, 97, 100-3, 108
Beijing 32-3, 60, 64, 106, 110, 176-7, 180, 183, 188, 197, 199, 203, 205-6
Beijing Daily 176
Bell Tone 72-3, 75, 97, 103
Beyond the Horizon 131
The Black Cannon Incident 165, 169-71, 184
Blood Is Ahvavs Hot 74-5, 97-8, 100-3, 108, 116
Body and Soul 28
books see literature
British Cinema in the 1980s: Issues and Themes 7
The Broken Promise 214-17

cadres 13-14, 16, 31-3, 35, 38-42, 46, 96, 99, 102, 106, 132-3, 155, 198-9; intellectual 162; ordinary 39; retired 39; worker-peasant 162
Cai Chusheng 16
Cai Ming 111-15
Caihong Company 196
Call of the Home Valley 142
Call of the Home Village 64, 193
cameras 42, 53, 80, 114-15
cannons 77, 169
careers 59, 64, 91, 106, 118, 122, 129, 153, 163, 179, 193; of intellectuals 163; and love 118, 122
Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society 5
Central Studio News Reels Production 109
Chairman Mao 1, 12-14, 18, 46-8, 145, 151, 154, 159, 194, 208, 227
Chang Lüye countryside 139-41
characters 6-7, 32-3, 42-3, 85-8, 92, 95-155, 165-8, 170-2, 176, 189, 200-2, 206, 208-9, 213, 218-19, 223-4, 227; class 59; comic 201; fearless 114; fictitious 216; film's 103; idealized 102, 123, 215; moral 169; national 145, 152, 154; opera 69; reform-oriented 101, 223
A Charming Band 66, 143-4, 215-16
Chen Guangzhong 109-10
Chen Peisi 54, 178, 199, 201
Cheng Gu 134-5, 191-2
clildren 24, 27, 31-2, 34-5, 39, 55, 140, 145, 147, 165-6, 192, 195, 210-12; behavior of 35; privileged 35; of senior cadres 32, 35, 64; and youth 145
China 11-13
China 1-3, 5-7, 11-14, 20-1, 27-9, 46-51, 58-60, 62-4, 72-4, 85-8, 103-5, 145-9, 151-2, 154-5, 160-2, 164-5, 171, 189-91, 218-19, 224-7; abstract perceptions of 118; backwardness of 2; history of 131, 190; images of 6-7, 13, 47, 197, 227; liberation of 205; pre-liberation of 21; relegated to a colonial and semi-colonial status 12; revitalizing 98, 126; rural 130, 139, 142, 145, 212, 215; social development in 189; socialist 12, 21-3, 25, 165; and the steel industry 107
China Central Committee 14
China Film Art Research Center 4
China Film Association 49
China Film Press 4
China Import and Export Fair 190
China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema 5
China Military Academy 61
China Radio and Television Publishing House 4
China Writers Association 188, 195
China Youth Daily 64, 110, 192-3
Chinese 1-2, 6-7, 11-12, 17, 20, 39, 42, 47-50, 52-3, 56, 58-9, 66-8, 71-2, 86-8, 170; characteristics 97, 174, 188-9, 203-4, 227; countryside 143, 215; culture 189, 225; history 43, 56, 108, 131; youth 108, 114, 152
Chinese cinema 3-7, 15, 25, 65, 117, 145, 147, 170, 227; essays 6; golden age of 147; melodramatic narratives in 5; research on 3; and social change in the 1980s 6
Chinese Film Culture 5
Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes 6
Chinese Image Poetics 7
The Chinese People Cannot Be Humiliated: A Critique of Antonioni 's Anti-Chinese Film China 11
Chinese People’s Liberation Army 29, 205
Chinese Revolution 5, 12, 130
Chinese society 1, 6, 50, 53, 60, 181, 184, 188, 195, 218, 223; impacted 48; traditional 170
cinema 4, 7-8, 17, 53, 60, 130, 134, 183, 200, 212, 226; see also movies
class struggle 13, 51-3, 56, 73, 161, 222
classes 59, 132, 146, 159, 175, 222, 226-7; high school graduating 148; intellectual 161, 175; preparation 149; social 173-4
Code Name: Cougar 184
Cold War 1
commercial spies 190
communes 83, 134, 137, 142
communism 130, 132, 145, 151
Communist Party of China 15, 19, 22-3, 38, 40-1, 62, 65, 130, 133-5, 137, 145, 147, 151, 154, 187-8, 193-4; Central Committee 14, 23, 36-8, 48-9, 51, 65, 72, 96; and the establishment of
the People's Republic of China 46; faces the difficult political challenge of solving the problems left by the Cultural Revolution 14; policies of 2; Youth League 118, 122, 136, 173
conflicts 7, 53, 61-2, 81-2, 128, 134, 136, 198, 201, 214, 223; class 146; contradictory 25; family 141; harsh 162; new 37; social 198; universal cultural 210
construction 38-9, 41, 56, 58, 76-9, 86-7, 97, 103-4, 110, 115, 117, 222, 227; automated 57; economic 13, 222; groundbreaking 78; national 30, 47, 58, 97; sites 77; social 134; socialist 12-13, 62; urban 103
Contemporary Chinese Cinema 4-6
The Contemporary People 31, 198
A Corner in The City 116
corruption 194-5, 198
CPC see Communist Party of China
crimes 5, 34, 62, 194
cultural atmosphere 50, 143, 168, 187, 223
cultural consumption patterns 182
cultural enlightenment 87, 161
A Cultural History of Chinese Cinema 5
cultural life 15, 17, 141, 143
cultural restrictions 187, 205
Cultural Revolution: in narrative form 17; ruthlessness of the 71
cultural trends 16, 88, 126, 142, 171, 184
Cultural Trends on Cinema in the New Era 4
cultural values 6, 80, 98, 125, 183, 213
culture 5, 7-8, 15, 48-9, 52, 57-8, 68, 87, 116-17, 137, 160-1, 201, 224-5; civilized 78; communist 145; and cultural consumption 110; elite 171, 174-5; and enlightenment 87; extreme leftist 16, 142; feudal 59; mainstream 86, 216; mass 31, 183; old 18; poetic 194; popular 60, 173-5, 197; scientific 50; social 96; spiritual 67; traditional 171, 216-17
Culture and Arts Press 4

dancing 80, 90-1, 113, 154, 190-1, 197, 207, 218-19
Death of the River 4
A Decade of Chinese Films in a New Era 4
Deep Love and Friendship 163
Deng Xiaoping 1-3, 23, 29-31, 35-7, 46, 48, 130, 132, 145-6, 160-1, 163, 165, 187-8
development 47-8, 76-7, 85-6, 101, 103, 105-7, 129-32, 134, 149-50, 163-4, 174-5, 179, 187-9, 217-18, 226-7; all-round 116-17; cultural 181-2, 187; personal 51; of reforms 226
Diary of a Nurse 163
Ding Yingchuan 132
diplomas 68, 116, 146, 175-9
dir. 32, 37, 39, 50-1, 60, 63-4, 66-70, 72, 74-6, 84, 132, 146-9, 162-3, 174, 176-8, 182-4, 189-91, 193-4, 196-7
directors 4-6, 14-15, 34, 61, 63-4, 66, 77, 90-1, 112, 119-20, 138-9, 173-4, 190-2, 201, 203-5; Bai Chen 125; Cai Chusheng 16; Chen Guangzhong 109-10; Guo Baochang 77-8; Huang Jianxin 165, 174, 201, 209; Huang Shuqin 30-1, 111, 114; Jiang Shusen 31, 37, 75, 116; Ling Zifeng 15, 163; Liu Huiai 15; Lu Xiaoya 31, 69, 149-50, 152; Ou Fan 20; Peng Ning 4, 22; Qi Xingjia 116; Qian Jiang 32; Qin Zhiyu 176; Shen Xiling 16; Shui Hua 15; Teng Wenji 64, 116, 219; Wang Chen 165; Wang Ping 15; Wang Tong 21; Wu Yigong 25; Wu Yonggang 25, 154; Xie Jin 4-5, 26; Xing Jitian 20; Xu Guming 39; Yang Yanjin 19, 165, 199; Ye Ming 18, 162; Yuan Muzhi 16; Yuan Naichen 163; Zhang Yi 18: Zhao Yuan 32, 149, 209; Zheng Dongtian 39
Don’t Let the Youth Go by 109
Dream of the Red Chamber 83
The Drive to Win 64, 193
Du Jian 37

East Valley Cinema (later renamed Romance on Lushan Cinema) 60
Economic Information Daily 180
economic reforms 84, 128-9, 225
education 50, 54, 146-7, 149, 152, 160, 173, 179, 187, 197, 204
enlightenment 37, 51, 63, 67, 84, 86-8, 147, 152, 183-4, 218; see also cultural enlightenment
entertainment 4-5, 65, 90, 183-5, 190
entrepreneurs 96, 100, 102, 114
entrepreneurship 76, 125
environment 55, 59, 85, 217; beautiful 67; closed-off 47, 217; competitive 148; external 214; harsh 89; heterogeneous 197; historical 7; international 1; natural 88, 214; peaceful 13; political 162; representative 95-6; rural 136, 213; social 65
Erzi Has a Little Hotel 178, 200-1
essays 4, 6, 98, 173, 191-2, 224-5; An Essay On Man 98; Huang Jianxin and Post-Socialist China 6; Self-description of Wang Shuo 173
Evening Rain 25-6, 29, 154
Everyone Is Made Useful 178, 199
exams 91, 117, 142, 148-9, 171, 176-8, 200, 204

factions 18, 225
factories 11, 37, 50, 73-4, 100, 102-3, 110-15, 117, 120-1, 123-4, 141; managers of 112, 114; modern 117, 218-19
faith 26, 50, 71-2
families 20-1, 27-8, 31-3, 37, 50-2, 54-5, 61, 63, 103, 105, 109-10, 141-3, 149. 166, 177
Families in Jiwowa 83
family planning 52-3
Family Trivia 142-3
farmers 66-7, 79, 82-3, 85, 104, 111, 130-3, 135-6, 138-9, 141-4, 211-12, 214-15
farming 82, 85, 139
A Father and His Son 199-201, 204
Father and Son 178
Father and Son Open a Bar 178
Father and Son 's Car 178
fictional characters 95, 225
Fifth Grade Class No. 2 149
Fifth Member Representative Conference, China Film Association 49
Fifth National People's Congress 2
Film, Form, and Culture 8
Film and Television 4
Film and Television in the New Era 4
Film Art 147
film industry 3, 14-15, 17, 96, 109-10, 147, 150, 174, 182-4, 192-3
film narratives 20, 26
film production 4, 18, 29, 49, 72, 182
Film Stories 137, 153
Film Stories Monthly 123
Film Story 22, 191
film studios 173, 182
film workers 7, 15, 96
filmmakers 43, 49, 111, 114, 122, 126-7, 129, 136, 147, 149, 152
films see movies
Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army 7
First Golden Rooster Awards for Chinese Cinema 25
foreign businessmen 77, 190
foreign countries 9, 28, 48
foreign spies 190
foreigners 21, 80, 118, 122, 190-1, 207
Forever Young 30, 149, 154
The Four Fundamental Principles Cannot Be Violated: A Review of the Film Script Unrequited Love 22
"Four Modernizations and national rejuvenation” 49, 58
freedom 53, 59, 90-2, 125, 150, 152, 154, 187-8, 195, 207, 210; academic 225; human 59; ideological 188; individual 98; to love 59; seeking 86
Freshwater Bay 116
From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film 7, 226
Full of Colors 116

Gang of Four 13, 24
Gao Fande 132
Garden Street Number 5 75
Gasping Out, Half Flame, Half Brine 174, 201, 206, 208
generations 3, 5, 13, 15, 38-10, 81, 99, 107, 150, 153-4, 218-19, 223, 225; elder 30, 82, 165, 203; first 77; of intellectuals 168; new 5, 58, 69, 77, 109, 147, 153
The Girl in Red 69, 88, 149-54
Girl Students’ Dormitory 149
God 13, 80, 105
The Golden Path 132
Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture 85, 101, 136-7, 150-1, 153-4, 167-8, 170, 212-13
Gong Xue 3
Good Things Never Come Easy 32-4, 55
graduates 176, 179-80
graduations 178-9
Great Leap Forward 1950s 47-8, 50
Great Wall of China 164-5
Green Fields Again 79-81
Guan Tianpei 77
Guangzhou 60, 127-8, 190, 206
A Guitar Band on the Side of the Road 66
Guo Baochang 77-8

Haitan 116
The Happy Bachelors 50, 116-17
He Has Been in Special Zone 76-7
The Head Teacher 16, 30, 68, 151
hedonism 195, 197-8, 206
The Herdsman 26-7, 29, 170
heroes and heroines of Chinese communism 62, 99, 108, 145, 163-4, 176, 197, 207, 224; Lai Ning 146; Liu Hulan 207; Liu Wen 146; Wang Erxiao 145-6
Hey! Brothers 177
Hi, Sisters! 197
history 2, 4-5, 7, 22, 49, 72-3, 88-9, 98, 105, 107, 111, 113, 155, 216-17, 224-5; of China 131, 190; contemporary 13, 161; dynastic 7; economic 84; of ideology and literature 165; national 217; poeticizing 5; truths of 22
A History of Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Since 1997 5
Hometown Accent 84, 142, 210, 212-14
Hong Kong 1-2, 6-7, 56, 76, 96, 190-2, 194, 196-7; capitalist 197; and Macau 76; scenes of touring 192; streets 190
Hongguang Turbine and Electric Machinery Factory 73
households 39-40, 132, 138, 140
Hu Yaobang 23-4, 31, 65, 96, 188, 193
Hua Guofeng 14
Huacheng 107, 190
Huajiang Steel Company (“Huagang”) 105-7
Huang Jianxin 165, 174, 201, 209
Huang Jianxin and Post-Socialist China 6
Huang Mao 119-21
Huang Shuqin 30-1, 111, 114
Huaxia University 179-80
humanitarianism 16, 87, 98, 151

Ideological Problems 162
ideological trends 184-5
ideology 5, 8, 86, 140, 160, 165, 176, 184, 202
images 5-9, 17, 42-3, 46-7, 51-3, 84-5, 95-7, 99-101, 114-15, 144, 153-4, 165, 172-3, 182-4, 197-201, 203, 208-9; archetypical 117, 168; of China in the new era 46; constructed 117; cultural 115; idealized 117, 129; literary 95, 227; screen 31, 51; spiritual 183; of veteran cadres 31-2, 198-9
imagination 7, 16, 30, 47, 50, 96, 99, 126, 154-5, 216, 225-7; cultural 30, 79, 115, 120; intellectual 120
In and Out of Court 31-2, 34, 97, 198
In-Laws 136
In the Wild Mountains 82-3, 85, 88, 92
industrial workers 115, 120, 219
industry 1, 109, 115, 124, 141, 174, 182-3
intellectuals 15-16, 24-5, 27, 50-1, 58, 67-8, 96, 99, 115, 117, 151-2, 154, 159-85, 226-7; celebrated 175; defined 87; depicting young 163; elite 185; glorifying bourgeois 163; humanistic 161; liberal 226; mainstream 184, 225; and old cadres 227; patriotic 58; pettybourgeois 159
interests 65, 74, 85, 105, 154, 187-8; collective 104; individual 104-5, 134, 196, 198; national 63, 104
An Interim Father 178
Internal Strife 74
Is It Love? 116

Jiang Sluisen 51, 37, 75, 116
jobs 33, 89, 116, 124-5, 140, 165, 170, 177, 179-80, 184, 210
journalists 180; see also newspapers
justice 25, 33-4, 89, 105, 196, 198

Kinship 64-5, 193
knowledge 50-1, 54-5, 57, 68, 99, 116-17, 119-20, 124, 146-8, 159-85, 188, 194; and Chinese films of the 1980s 175; and culture 160; and diplomas 175-6, 179; lack of 119-20; miracle of 176, 179, 204; modern system of 99; professional 164, 167; public's reexamination of 183; pursuit of 177, 184; revolutionary 184; and young people 184
Kolker, Robert 8-9
Kracauer, Siegfried 7-8, 226
Kuomintang 21-2, 40, 163-4

labor 67, 71, 120, 122, 124, 127, 132, 141; collective 132; creative 119, 122; surplus 138, 140
The Lament (poem) 21
Landscape in the Mist: Chinese Film Culture 1978-1998 5
The Last Choice 37-8, 97, 101
The Last Clue of the Big Case 182-3
leaders 37, 40, 59, 61, 65, 73, 75, 77, 111, 188-9, 191, 193, 196; national 47, 55, 63; new cultural 38, 142; party and government 65, 96; provincial 104; rural 144
leadership 3, 12, 22, 35-6, 41, 48, 104, 112-13, 130, 154, 176; classes 162; experiences 46; national 31; party 14, 163; positions 14
Legend of Tianyun Mountain 26, 63-4, 170, 193
Li Jiangchuan 100, 102, 108
Li Siguang 163-4
Life 69, 84
The Life of Wuxun 162
lifestyles 46, 48, 83, 85, 189, 191-2; bourgeois 163; modern 82; new 66, 218-19; old 219; showing Western 191
Ling Yan 148-9
Ling Zifeng 15, 163
literature 1, 3-5, 7-8, 11, 54-5, 87, 96, 98, 101, 118-20, 171-2, 174, 187-8, 204-5, 223-4; and art 17, 24, 96, 147, 159, 187-8, 193; Body and Soul 28; British Cinema in the 1980s: Issues and Themes 7; Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society 5; Charming Band 143-4; China into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema 5; Chinese Film Culture 5; Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes 6; Chinese Image Poetics 7; The Chinese People Cannot Be Humiliated: A Critique of Antonioni’s Anti-Chinese Film China 11; Contemporary Chinese Cinema 4-6; A Cultural History of Chinese Cinema 5; Cultural Trends on Cinema in the New Era 4; and culture 7, 68, 87; Death of the River 4; Dream of the Red Chamber 83; An Essay On Man 98; Families in Jiwawa 83; Film, Form, and Culture 8; Film and Television 4; Film and Television in the New Era 4; Film Art 147; Film Stories 137, 153; Film Stories Monthly 123; Film Story 22, 191; Films and British National Identity: From Dickens to Dad's Army 7; From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film 7, 226; The Head Teacher 16, 68, 151; The Headteacher 16, 30; A History of Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Since 1997 5; idealistic 225; innovative 3; Landscape in the Mist: Chinese Film Culture 1978-1998 5; Man Is the Starting Point of Marxism 151; Manager Qiao Takes Office 30, 73, 97, 101; Mass Review of 1983 Films 137; and music 64, 66, 80-1, 91, 109, 114-15, 120, 143-4, 192, 197, 205; Nature as an Optical Engineer 119-20; New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics 6; Night and Day 223-4; Noise of the City 118; Novels of Hong Kong 7; On Modern Chinese
Thought 49; Perspectives on Chinese Cinema 6; The Plasticine Man 206; Reading 130, 223-4; The Red Shirt without Buttons 149; The Republic Will Never Forget 105, 108; Review and Analysis of the Literary Trend in the New Times 151; Review of the Mainstream Literature and Art in the New Era 4; The Road to Revival: Film Creation and Theory Criticism from 1977 to 1986 4; Salutation 30; Sounds of the City 119; Speech at the Yan ’an Forum on Literature and Art 159; The Troubleshooters 174; Ways of Imagining Hong Kong: An Anthology of Hong Kong Fiction (1945-2000); The Women of Huangtupo Village 139-41; World Under the Sea 117-18
Liu Huiai 15
Liu Lixing 39-43, 227
Liu Xiaoqing 3
Long Hansheng 194-5
long march 53, 123
Longgang Village 143-4
love 20-3, 25-9, 32, 52, 54, 59-65, 67-70, 88, 90-2, 103, 106, 109-10, 116, 118-19, 122-4, 147, 164-5, 193, 207-9, 219; and careers 118, 122; descriptions of 54, 63, 65; difficulties in 110; dramas 60; enjoyment of 63; entanglements 101; expressions of 60, 64; in film depictions 65; letters 68, 123-4; and marriage 64, 193; and passion for young people 109; plots 63, 65; portraying 51, 63; representations in films 64, 193; and revolution 65; songs 60, 64-5, 193; stories 60-1, 65, 90, 118, 177, 189, 192-3; triangles used in films 64-5
A Love-forsaken Corner 60
Love Songs Around the Valley 64-5, 193
love triangles 64-5
lovers 18, 72, 89, 91, 115, 121, 123, 204-5, 207; changed 196; former 61, 196; young 52-3
A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family 20, 165
Lu Xiaoya 31, 69, 149-50, 152

Macau 2, 76
magazines 22-3, 69-70, 146, 149, 224; Film Stories 137, 153; Film Story 22, 191; October 22; Red Flag 23
The Mahjong Incident 196-7
Male Citizens 77-9
Man Is the Starting Point of Marxism 151
The Man Who Was Accused 194-5
The Many Benefits of the Production Responsibility System Concerning Output 2
Mao, Chairman 1, 12-14, 48, 194, 208
Mao Zedong see Chairman Mao
The Maples 18
marriage 27, 33, 62-4, 70, 85, 89-90, 106, 110, 121, 141-2, 193, 198, 204
The Married Couple 162
Marxism 48, 151, 154
Masayoshi, Ohira (Japanese Prime Minister) 1
Mass Review of1983 Films 137
May Fourth Movement 1919 47, 88, 161
Me and My Classmates 149
Ministry of Culture 15, 25, 31, 52, 137
The Missing Girl-Student 149
modern factories 117, 218-19
Modern People 111-12, 116
moral education 173, 204
motherland 18, 20-2, 24, 27-8, 62, 103, 108, 122, 126, 145-6, 163-5, 168; beautiful 122; of China 103; great 24; and socialism 164
movie actresses 3, 25, 62, 64, 137, 168, 223; Gong Xue 3; Liu Xiaoqing 3; Wang Fuli 3
movies 3-9, 11-12, 14-23, 25-40, 42-3, 46-92, 95-155, 159-85, 189-93, 195-218, 226-7; 5 Huayuan Street 37-8; Acting Mayor 75, 103, 199; Against the Light 55, 68, 116-17, 119, 121, 123-5, 176; At Middle Age 68, 165, 167-9, 184; At the Age Of 14 or 15 149; The Beach 116, 217-19; Behind the Defendant 75, 97, 100-3, 108; Bell Tone 72-3, 75, 97, 103; Beyond the Horizon 131; The Black Cannon Incident 165, 169-71, 184; Blood Is Always Hot 74-5, 97-8, 100-3, 108, 116; The Broken Promise 214-17; Call of the Home Valley 142; Call of the Home Village 64, 193; A Charming Band 66, 143-4, 215-16, China 11-13; Code Name: Cougar 184; The Contemporary People 31, 198; A Corner in The City 116; Crossroads 16; A Decade of Chinese Films in a New Era 4; Deep Love and Friendship 163; Diary of a Nurse 163; Don't Let the Youth Go by 109; The Drive to Win 64, 193; Erzi Has a Little Hotel 178, 200-01; Evening Rain 25-6,
29, 154; Everyone Is Made Useful 178, 199; Family Trivia 142-3; A Father and His Son 199-201, 204; Father and Son 178; Father and Son Open a Bar 178; Father and Son's Car 178; Fifth Grade Class No. 2 149; Flowers of the Motherland 146; Forever Young 30, 149, 154; Freshwater Bay 116; Full of Colors 116; Garden Street Number 5 75; Gasping Out, Half Flame, Half Brine 174, 201, 206, 208; The Girl in Red 69, 88, 149-54; Girl Students’ Dormitory 149; Golden Late Autumn 37; The Golden Path 132; Good Things Never Come Easy 32-4, 55; Green Fields Again 79-81; A Guitar Band on the Side of the Road 66; Haitan 116; Half Flame, Half Brine 174, 201; The Happy Bachelors 50, 116-17; He Has Been in Special Zone 76-7; The Herdsman 26-7, 29, 170; Hey! Brothers 177; Hi, Sisters! 197; Hometown Accent 84, 142, 210, 212-14; Ideological Problems 162; In and Out of Court 31-2, 34, 97, 198; In-Laws 136; In the Wild Mountains 82-3, 85, 88, 92; An Interim Father 178; Internal Strife 74; Is It Love? 116; Kinship 64-5, 193; The Last Choice 37-8, 97, 101; The Last Clue of the Big Case 182-3; Legend of Tianyun Mountain 26, 63-4, 170, 193; Li Siguang 163-4; Life 69, 84; The Life of Wuxun 162; A Love-forsaken Corner 60; Love Songs Around the Valley 64-5, 193; A Loyal Overseas Chinese Family 20, 165; The Mahjong Incident 196-7; Male Citizens 77-9; The Man Who Was Accused 194-5; The Maples 18; The Married Couple 162; Me and My Classmates 149; The Missing Girlstudent 149; Modern People 111-12, 116; My Ten Classmates 18; Mysterious Buddha 64, 189, 193; Narrow Street 19; Neighbors 39, 42, 227; New Star 72-3, 98; Night and Day 223-4; Number 5 Garden Street 108; On Their Own 149, 179-80; Our Life Is Full of Sunshine 51; Our Niu Baisui 132, 134-9, 141, 210, 212-14, 217, 227; Our Veteran 138-9, 141, 217-18; Portrait of a Fanatic 165, 183; The Power of Women 75, 88, 116; Precipice 163; Qin Jian 148-9, 155; Red Beans from the North 88-90; Red Children 146; Red Flag 15; The Red Peony 189; Red Skirts Are in Fashion on the Street 116; Remained Snow, They Are in Love 31-4, 198; A Revolutionary Family 15; Robbery on Emei Mountain 182-3; Rock Kids 66 90, 92, 184: Romance on Lushan Mountain 60-2; Samsara 174, 201, 206, 208-9; The Savage Lover 196; The Sea Is Calling 191-2; The Second Handshake 163-4; Shanghai Girl 163; The Shaolin Temple 67; Sheng Xia and Her Fiancé 176-7; The Silly Manager 178, 201; Song of Youth 15; Sparking Red Star 146; Specter 189; Spring Dawn in Fengyang 131; The Spring River Flows East 16; Spring Water Makes a Song 39; A Story of Fortune Makers 50, 116; The Stoty of Liubao 15; The Story Shouldn’t Have Happened 132-4, 136; Street Angel 16; The Substitute 149; Summer Island 51; The Sun and Me 4, 21-3, 25; The Sunshine of Spring 148-9; Surfacing on the Sea 209; A Sweet Life 51-3, 55, 109; T Province in 1984 and 1985 199; Tear Stains 97; They Are in Love 32; Trouble Happened at Home 100; Troubled Laughter 165; The Troubleshooters 171, 174, 183-4, 201-2, 204-6, 208; Twins Come in Pairs 52, 63; Under the Bridge 125-6, 130; Unmelted Snow 199; Unrequited Love (also known as The Sun and Me) 21-5, 28-9; An Upright Family Official 31, 37; Urban Masquerade 70; The Waves of Life 163; We Didn't Know Love During First Love 177; What a Family 51-2, 54-5, 58, 63, 109; What Is Love? 63; Where Is the Visitor From? 64, 189-93, 197; The White Lotus 189; The Women of Huangtupo Village 139-41; The Xiangsi Women’s Inn 75, 100, 108, 198; Yamaha Fish Stall 127, 130, 195; YelloW Earth 184; The Young Kids 50-2, 55, 57-9, 63, 109, 116, 176; The Young Teacher 32, 147; Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy 146; Zhenzhen’s Hair Salon 126, 130
music 64, 66, 80-1, 91, 109, 114-15, 120, 143-4, 192, 197, 205
musical instruments 66, 144
My Ten Classmates 18
Mysterious Buddha 64, 189, 193

Narrow Street 19
Nature as an Optical Engineer 119-20
Neighbors 39, 42, 227
"New China” 11-12, 19, 22-3, 31, 46-8, 52
New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics 6
New Star 72-3, 98
newspapers 64, 70, 146, 174, 209; The Baltimore Sun 60; Beijing Daily 176; Economic Information Daily 180; Film Stories Monthly 123-4, 137, 153; People’s Daily 2, 11, 23, 56, 188; Wenhuibao 161
nightclubs 190-1
No. 5 Huayuan Street 37-8
Noise of the City 118
Nova 223-4
novels see publications
Novels of Hong Kong 7
Number 5 Garden Street 108

October (magazine) 22
officials 11, 34, 154, 181, 194-5; government 31, 81; high-ranking 180, 192; and intellectuals 181
old cadres 29-36, 58, 63, 113, 133, 166, 225-7
On Modern Chinese Thought 49
On Their Own 149, 179-80
Ou Fan 20
Our Niu Baisui 132, 134-9, 141, 210, 212-14, 217, 227
Our Veteran 138-9, 141, 217-18

Pacific Ocean 2
Pageaux, Daniel-Henri 8-9, 13, 95
Party Central Committee 3, 15, 160, 187
Party Construction Committee 196
party members 23; leadership 14, 163; regaining their strength 133; style 37, 102, 199
party secretaries 106, 132, 135, 194
Peng Ning 4, 22
people's communes 130, 132-4, 136
People's Daily 2, 11, 23, 56, 188
People's Republic of China see China
Perspectives oil Chinese Cinema 6
The Plasticine Man 206
poems 55, 66, 68-71, 80, 118; The Lament 21; To Jialin 69
poetry 68-70, 110, 118-19
politics 1, 6, 26, 50-1, 62, 86, 171, 187-8
Portrait of a Fanatic 165, 183
Post-Cultural Revolution era 125, 153, 161, 222
The Power of Women 75, 88, 116
Precipice 163
problems 13-15, 17, 20-1, 23-4, 32-9, 52-3, 56-8, 100-2, 104, 106-7, 111-13, 133, 135-8, 140, 177; health 41; housing 39; spiritual 224
production 8, 22, 48, 52, 73-4, 111, 130-3, 138, 159; agricultural 85, 131, 133-4; brigades 132, 134; efforts 133; film 4, 18, 29, 49, 72, 182; groups 133, 135; organizations 134; teams 50, 130, 132, 134, 142, 197; units 134
Public Security Bureau 169

Qi Xin 141
Qi Xingjia 116
Qianmen (cigarettes) 211
Qin Jian 148-9, 155
Qin Zhiyu 176
Qincheng prison 15
qualities 69, 85, 92, 95, 112, 143, 152, 182, 196; export 74; new 97; spiritual 145

radios 178, 214
Reading 130, 223-4
Red Beans from the North 88-90
Red Flag (film) 15
Red Flag (magazine) 23
Red Flag Workshop 111, 114
Red Guards 18-19, 205
The Red Peony 189
The Red Shirt without Buttons 149
Red Skirts Are in Fashion on the Street 116
reform 35, 37, 72-6, 78-86, 96-108, 113, 115, 134, 136, 138, 194-5, 199, 212-15, 222, 224-6; addressing 73, 103; bold 37; contemporary 102, 223; corporate 104; and development 103, 106; land contract 215; political 72; structural 181-2; urban 181, 195
Reform and Opening Up Policies 1-2, 4, 48, 50-1, 53-4, 59, 96-7, 99, 127-8, 130, 164, 181, 187-90, 205-6, 225-6
relations 31, 33, 42, 65, 88, 102, 130, 162, 193; cultural 210; economic 46; emotional 105; ethical 50
relationships 6-9, 20, 22, 24, 27, 32-3, 35-6, 39, 59, 61-2, 64-5, 85, 121-2, 177-8, 197-9; ambiguous 106; changing 163; controversial 34; damaged 33; emotional 59, 105; human 61; intimate 27; martial 34; romantic 61; sexual 65, 207; social 39
Remained Snow, They Are in Love 31-4, 198
The Republic Will Never Forget 105, 108
Review and Analysis of the Literary Trend in the New Times 151
Review of the Mainstream Literature and Art in the New Era 4
revolution 18, 24, 29, 31, 51, 56, 65, 97, 100, 160, 162, 193-4, 199; combined 67; pre-Cultural 46
A Revolutionary Family 15
River Elegy 58
The Road to Revival: Film Creation and Theory Criticism from 1977 to 1986 4
Robbery on Emei Mountain 182-3
Rock Kids 66, 90, 92
The Rock Youth 184
Romance on Lushan Mountain 60-2
rural areas 1-2, 66, 79, 81-3, 85-6, 88, 130, 132, 134-6, 138-42, 210, 212-13, 217
rural films 5, 143-4
rural life 82, 144, 210, 212
rural reforms 81-2, 134, 137, 214
rural youth 142-3, 214

Salutation 30
Samsara 174, 201, 206, 208-9
The Savage Lover 196
scholars 3, 8, 64, 86-7, 124, 162; female 31; film 7-8; of literature and culture 87; overseas 5; pessimistic 131
screen productions 155; see also film productions
The Seals Calling 191-2
The Second Handshake 163-4
Selected Novels of Prosper Mérimée 69
Self-description of Wang Shuo 173
Shan Ding 182, 204, 215
Shanghai Film Studio 14, 26, 39, 116, 131, 138
Shanghai Girl 163
The Shaolin Temple 67
Shen Xiling 16
Sheng Xia and Her Fiancé 176-7
Shui Hua 15
The Silly Manager 178, 201
social relations 47, 51, 59, 84, 86, 108
socialism 22, 24, 65-6, 75, 96-7,104, 109, 163-4, 188-9, 222, 225; with Chinese characteristics 97, 174, 188-9, 203-4, 227; superiority of 134, 137
socialist 12-13, 21-5, 47-8, 95-7, 109-10, 117-18, 124-5, 127, 132, 135, 159, 163, 168, 203-4, 214-15; characters 96; consciousness 97, 187; country 21-2, 97; culture 189; development 30, 163; intellectuals 170; new 74, 96-7, 100, 159, 174, 203-4; system 23-4, 102, 127, 163; workers 117
society 7-9, 50-1, 58-60, 95-6, 110-11, 113, 117-18, 122-5, 127, 129, 148-54, 159-60, 162-3, 167-8, 170-2, 174-6, 179-81, 183-4, 199-203, 224-5; civil 152; contemporary 152, 224; enlightening 184; long-standing maledominated 212; mainstream 50, 59, 167-8, 225; prosperous 1-2, 67, 155, 222; rural 79, 86; selfish 207
soldiers 15, 57, 75, 82, 138, 159, 163, 207; former 40; literary 165; marching to change the guard 208; retired 210
Song of Youth 15
songs 18-21, 37, 39, 50-3, 55-7, 63-7, 91, 103-4, 108-9, 114, 116, 139, 141-2, 190, 203-5; army 's 20
Sounds of the City 119
Specter 189
Speech at the Yan ’an Forum on Literature and Art 159
spies 190
Spring Water Makes a Song 39
A Story of Fortune Makers 50, 116
The Story of Linbao 15
The Story Shouldn't Have Happened 136
students 32, 69, 147-9, 179-80, 207
The Substitute 149
The Sun and Me 4, 21-3, 25
The Sunshine of Spring 148-9
Surfacing on the Sea 209
A Sweet Life 51-3, 55, 109

T Province in 1984 and 1985 199
Taiwan 1-2, 6, 13, 56, 62, 65
teachers 19, 32, 39, 69, 147, 152, 160, 173, 175, 203, 210-11
Tear Stains 97
Teng Wenji 64, 116, 219
They Are in Love 32
Third Plenary Session, Eleventh Central Committee 2, 28, 38, 48, 51, 72-4, 97-8, 127, 136, 213, 216
Tian Zhuangzhuang 66, 90, 184
To Jialin (poem) 69
tradition 5, 32, 39-40, 59, 78, 81, 210, 215-17, 219; cultural 153; farming 82; feudal 59; historical 5; old 46, 79, 219; preserving 5; rural 213; of rural life in China 82
Trauma 16, 98, 126, 183
Trouble Happened at Home 100
Troubled Laughter 165
The Troubleshooters 171, 174, 183-4, 201-2, 204-6, 208
TV series 58, 71-2, 98, 223; New Star 72-3, 98; Nova 223-4; River Elegy 58
Twins Come in Pairs 52, 63

Under the Bridge 125-6, 130
A Unique and Colorful Newcomer 153
Unmelted Snow 199
An Upright Family Official 31, 37
Urban Masquerade 70

values 27-8, 38-9, 48, 50-1, 59, 63-4, 84-6, 91-2, 97-8, 127, 151, 167-8, 183-4, 195-6, 198, 205-6, 215-17, 223-4; correct 193; of love 63, 65; traditional 82, 84, 142
villagers 82, 138-40, 144, 211, 215-17

Wang, David Der-wei 7, 112, 145
Wang Chen 165
Wang Fuli 3
Wang Kaiji 112-14
Wang Meng 30-1
Wang Ping 15
Wang Ruoshui 151
Wang Shuo 171, 173-5, 182-3, 199, 201-3, 205-6, 208-10
Wang Tong 21
war films 65
The Waves of Life 163
Ways of Imagining China: History, Fiction and Story 7
Ways of Imagining Hong Kong: An Anthology of Hong Kong Fiction (1945-2000) 7
We Didn't Know Love During First Love 177
Wenhuibao 161
What a Family 51-2, 54-5, 58, 63, 109
What Is love? 63
Where Is the Visitor From? 64, 189-93, 197
The White Lotus 189
women 5, 51-2, 60, 62, 64, 88, 91, 96, 98, 140-2, 197, 211-12, 218; and femininity in new-era films 5; old Marxist-Leninist 165, 169; rich 197-8
The Women of Huangtupo Village 139-41
workers 159-61, 163-4; industrial 115, 120, 219; migrant 138
working groups 133-4, 136
World Under the Sea 117-18
The Wrong Tendency of the Film Unrequited Love 23
Wu Yigong 25
Wu Yonggaiig 25, 154

Xia Yinyin 118-24
The Xiangsi Women’s Inn 75, 100, 108, 198
Xie Jin 4-5, 26
Xing Jitian 20
Xu Giming 39

Yamaha Fish Stall 127, 130, 195
Yang Yanjin 19, 165, 199
Ye Ming 18, 162
Yellow Earth 184
Yellow River 104, 184, 215-16
The Young Kids 50-2, 55, 57-9, 63, 109, 116, 176
young people 171-2, 176, 184, 187, 193, 197, 200-1, 203-4, 208, 218-19, 223
The Young Teacher 32, 147
young workers 50, 110, 115-17, 119, 122-4, 218
youth 18, 20-1, 52-6, 66, 68, 108-11, 113-17, 119, 122-4, 142-3, 145-7, 175-6, 179, 200-1, 203; culture 197; educated 124; rural 142-3, 214; work 136
Yuan Muzhi 16
Yuan Naichen 163

Zhang Ga the Soldier Boy 146
Zhang Yi 18
Zhao Shuxin 165, 169-71, 184, 227
Zhao Yaoshun 171-3, 184, 203
Zhao Yuan 32, 149, 209
Zheng Dongtian 39
Zhenzhen’s Hair Salon 126, 130
Zhou Enlai (Premier) 1
Zhou Zhenwu 61-2
Zhu Dongli 161, 175
Zunyi Conference 1935 151