After the Post–Cold War

Series Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas  vii
Acknowledgments  xi
Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel  xiii
Introduction / Translated by Jie Li  1
Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories
1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen  25
2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo  47
Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity
3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle  67
4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li  91
Part III. The Spy Genre
5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery  109
6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel  127
Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl  141
Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel  160
Notes  167
Selected Works of Dai Jinhua  181
Bibliography  183
Translators' Biographies  189
Index  191