Over the past few decades, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas has become a powerful force in contemporary cinema. Between his first feature Désordre (1986) and s

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By focusing on Chinese cultural formations and critical discourses of the last decade of the century, the author dissects the intellectual, economic, and politi