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Chinese cinema challenged by globalisation / Wang Ning -- To cheer for the family-nation, the construction of Chinese nationalism during the Hong Kong handover / Pan Zhongdan ... [et al.] -- The commercialised revolutionary culture in contemporary China / Tao Dongfeng -- Peking University's centennial, an event of cultural production in contemporary China / Xiong Hao -- The ideological function of western aesthetics in 1980s China / Zhou Xiaoyi -- Appropriation, resistance, and reconstruction, the aesthetics connection between consumer culture and literature / Chen Xiaoming -- Chinese populist nationalism / Xu Ben -- From Shambhala to Shangri-La, a travelling sign in the era of global tourism / Gang Yue -- Televisuality, capital, and the global village in Zhou Xiaowen's Ermo / Anne T. Ciecko and Sheldon H. Lu.