For Chinese-Language Cinema
Listening Guide
1.The renewed popularity of Dislocation
2.Two stories that inspired it
3.The dislocation of intellectuals
4.The historical context for promoting technocrats
5.“Laypeople leading experts” was not entirely derogatory
6.What is China’s real problem?
7.Deep-rooted bureaucracy
8.Narrative stagnation
9.Relaxation in even-numbered years, tightening in odd-numbered years
10.The symbolism of color and space
11.Samsara, the third film in the avant-garde trilogy
12.What was a “daoye,” or middleman-profiteer?
13.Another period of relaxation in an even-numbered year
14.The first Chinese film to shoot a public square this way
15.The Wang Shuo film year and the entertainment-film boom were a coincidence
16.Using rogue speech to resist lofty official rhetoric
17.The collapse of utopian faith
18.The film’s ending goes beyond Wang Shuo
19.“I’m a rogue—who could I fear?”
20.A spiritual crisis in a transitional condition
21.A mismatch between cultural psychology and the economic model
22.The meaning of the Young Pioneers flag-procession song
2025.07.03
Audio in Chinese
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