Week 7★June 5th THE DISAPPEARING CITY: RUINS & MONUMENTS II (Beijing/Shanghai) with in-class screening of shorts

Required Reading

Lu, Sheldon H.(2007) “Tear Down the City: Reconstructing Urban Space in Contemporary Chinese Popular Cinema and Avant-Garde Art”, The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society At The Turn Of The Twenty-First Century, eds. Zhang Zhen.pp137-160

Film for discussion: 100 Flowers Hidden Deep/百花深处, Dir.: CHEN Kaige/陈凯歌 (available at YouTube; we will watch it in class too)