Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its Cold War past to show how the recent erasure of the country's socialist history signifies socialism's failure and forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism.

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

Dai Jinhua is Professor of Chinese Literature and Language at Peking University and the author of Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, as well as numerous other books in Chinese.

Lisa Rofel is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and coauthor of Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.