Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: youth, cities, and the globalization of art cinema. The mise en scène of modernity: the French New Wave, Paris, and the global 1960s
  • Walking in the city
  • New wave futures
  • The urban archipelago: Taiwan's new wave and the East Asian economic boom
  • Morning in the megacity: Taiwan and the globalization of the city film
  • The haunting of Taipei
  • Chinese cinema in a world of flows: the new wave in the P.R.C.
  • The fifth generation and the youth of China
  • On living in a young city.