Index A Cheng 77 Beishida nü fuzhong (Girls’ Middle School Academy of Chinese Culture (Zhongguo attached to Beijing Normal wenhua shuyuan) 9 University) 106–11, 116–121 Adams, Henry 63 Bend, Not Break (Ping Fu) 19, 19 n50 Age of Enlightenment (Qimeng shidai) (Wang Benveniste, Emile 138, 142, 146 Anyi) 15, 15 n36 Bertolucci, Bernardo 85 Ai Mi 183–84, 186 Bian Zhilin 165 Allen, Brooke 91 Bian Zhongyun 23, 104, 106–11, 116–121, 118 Althusser, Louis 74, 85 n25, 119–120 n26 Amazon.com 19–20 n50 Biggers, Earl Derr 168 Anti-Rightist movement 18, 110 Blood Red Sunset (Xuese huanghun) (Lao Arendt, Hannah 164 Gui) 16, 19 n49 Aristotle 2 Born Red (Gao Yuan) 19, 31, 51 Autobiographical Acts (Bruss) 27, 29–30 Boym, Svetlana 24, 178–79 autobiography 26–37. see also Red Guard; Brady, Anne-Marie 44 traumatic realism Bruner, Jerome 42–43 and area studies 28 Bruss, Elizabeth 27, 29–30, 136 auto-ethnography 97 Bumming in Beijing (Liulang Beijing) (Wu and documentary filmmaking 103 Wenguang) 106 fiction as 136–38, 143–45, 158 and history 63 cadre schools 50 n3, 58–72, 172. see also Six and memory 127, 136–38 Chapters of a Life at Cadre School (Ganxiao and “reflective remembering” 182–83, liuji) (Yang Jiang) 187 Camus, Albert 135 and “restorative remembering” 181–82 Canada 44 revisionist 50–51 Cao Guanlong 19 n49 Carr, David 63, 69 Ba Jin 17–18 Catholic Church 125 Baiyangdian Lake 15 n35 Chan, Charlie 168–69 Bakhtin, Mikhail 127–28, 137, 147 Chan, Fruit 101 Balzac, Honore de 90–91, 96, 98–99 Changsha 55 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Dai Chen, Anita 10 n23 Sijie) 90, 99 Chen, Da 19 n49 Barmé, Geremie 111 Chen, Jianguo 141 n44 Barnouw, Erik 105 Chen, Joan 23, 83–89, 88 n37, 157. see also Beijing 42, 50–58, 104–11, 115, 123 Xiu Xiu (Joan Chen) Beijing 101 zhongxue (Beijing Middle School Chen Chong. see Chen, Joan 101) 51–54, 106 Chen Kaige Beijing Bicycle (Shiqisui de dance) (Wang approach to storytelling 75, 81–83 Xiaoshuai) 101 awards 75 Beijing Film Institute 184 on Cultural Revolution 12, 25, 43, 76 Beijing opera 82 as diaspora filmmaker 73 n3 Beijing si zhong (Beijing Middle School King of the Children 13 n31, 23, 73, 75–83, Number 4) 106 93, 96, 102, 168 Index 203 memoir (Wo de qingchun huiyi lu) 16, 16 Cold War 29 n39, 25, 43, 49 Collection of Random Thoughts, A (Suixiang rivalry with Zhang Yimou 82–83 lu) (Ba Jin) 17–18 use of Orientalist signifiers 82 Communist Youth League 37 n33, 152 vs. Xie Jin 82–83 Conceison, Claire 18 Yellow Earth (Huang tudi) 75, 81 Confessions (Kang Zhengguo) 35–36 Chen Xuezhao 18 Confessions of a Red Guard (Yige hongweibing Chengdu 83, 90 de zibai) (Liang Xiaosheng) 16 Chevaillier, Flore 91 Confucianism Chiang Kai-shek 115 and historiography 66 China, My Sorrow (Niüpeng) (Dai Sijie) 90, neo-Confucianism 9 92–93 in works of Chen Kaige 76–77, 80, 102 China, People’s Republic of in works of Dai Sijie 102 cultural exchange with West 21 Conservative Red Guards. see Red Guard founding of 112 Cultural Revolution. see also Mao Zedong; Great Northern Wilderness 51, 56 Red Guard; sent-down youth May Fourth era 100 contested memories 7–12 and memories of Cultural early political campaigns 110, 119–120 Revolution 7–12, 28–37 n26 and national identity 7–10 experimental art about 1 Politburo 9 films about 1, 13, 22, 73–126 popularity of Soviet films in 124, 127 historic importance 1 representations of Cultural Revolution Maoist discourse 76 within 13, 16 n39, 19 n49, 24, 75, 147 memoirs about 1, 16–72, 154, 178–187 as world power 1 memorabilia 2 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and nostalgia 9–10 early political campaigns 119–120 n26, oversimplifications of 29, 34–35, 40, 149 86–89, 102, 167, 169 under Mao 10, 113–14, 123 Red Terror 113 and memories of Cultural Revolution 9 social classes during 115, 134 in Red Guard memoirs 35, 54 social conflict perspectives 10–12, 131 and “rehabilitation” 36 theoretical critiques 9 and Yang Kaihui 55 Westerners’ understanding of 18–19, 35, Chinese diaspora 43–48, 80–81, 88–89, 92, 133–34, 157–58, and Anchee Min 155, 157 181 and Carma Hinton 112–13 and “De/Alienation” 156, 166, 168, 177 Dai Jinhua 12, 75 filmmakers in 73–89 Dai Sijie and Gao Xingjian 23, 131, 133–35, 137, 147, Balzac and the Little Chinese 174 Seamstress 90 and Joan Chen 85 China, My Sorrow (Niüpeng) 90, 92–93 memoirists in 10 and cinematic sutures 75, 93 and Qiu Xiaolong 155, 165 cultural influences 91 Chinese Film Academy 85 Eleventh Child, The (Nguol thùa) 90 Chinese Film Bureau 81 Little Chinese Seamstress, The 23, 90–102 Chinese language 28, 124, 155–56, 166 Moon Eater, The (Le mangeur de la Chow, Rey 77–79, 78 n13, 81, 102, 155 lune) 90 Chun Yu 19 and “reflective remembering” 182.