“Leitmotif”

Since the late 1970s, mainland China has undergone a sea change with a decisive turn from socialist governance and centralization to postsocialist marketization and privatization. Market as a new cultural logic and a dynamic integration of transnational capital fostered around the neoliberal axis become the major forces reshaping a wide range of economic, political, and cultural lives in postsocialist China. With China increasingly predicated upon the flourishing market rationality and its restructured relationships to the global capitalist system, a theory of neoliberalism thus becomes a resourceful tool and instrumental method to understand the significant political and social changes of postsocialist China and the pivotal transformations in the film circle as well.