CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1.1 China and Intellectual Property 1
1.1.1 Domestication 1
1.1.2 Penetration 2
1.2 Intellectual Property Under Critique 4
1.3 A Conquest or a Retreat？ 6
1.4 Waning of Socialism as Postsocialist Sentiment 8
1.5 Chapter Outline 14
CHAPTER 2 A POSTSOCIALIST FRIENDSHIP：THE AFFECTIVE PURSUIT OF SOUL AND FLESH 16
2.1 Introduction 16
2.2 Soul and Flesh：The Novel 16
2.3 The Debate on the Meaning of the Novel 21
2.4 Friendship，Affect，and Soul and Flesh Re-read 27
2.5 Epilogue 39
CHAPTER 3 CRITIQUE OF AN INTELLECTUAL FASHION：USELESS AND JIA ZHANGKE'S EMERGING IMPASS 42
3.1 Introduction：A Choreographed Encounter/non-encounter 42
3.2 Jia Zhangke's Aesthetics and Politics：Staring at the Real 44
3.2.1 The Real and the Ordinary 44
3.2.2 The Intellectuals 51
3.2.3 Aesthetics vs Politics：Recording Without Representing 53
3.3 Useless：Between the Intellectuals and the Ordinary 57
3.4 The Truth of the Choreography？ 62
3.5 After Useless 63
CHAPTER 4 MAO'S POLITICAL ECONOMY，OR，FOR ANOTHER POLITICS OF CREATIVE INDUSTRY 68
4.1 Introduction 68
4.2 Politics of Creative Industries 70
4.2.1 Nicolas Garnham 70
4.2.2 Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew 75
4.2.3 Richard Florida 79
4.2.4 Toby Miller 83
4.3 State，Market，and Mao's Political Economy 84
CHAPTER 5 VIEWS ON CREATIVE INDUSTRY：NOTES FROM CHONGQING 91
5.1 Introduction：Two Takes 91
5.1.1 Take One：Comparability and Timefulness 91
5.1.2 Take Two：What About Nanaimo？ 93
5.2 Chongqing：From Heavy Industry to Creative Industry 95
5.2.1 Chongqing：An Industrial History 95
5.2.2 Toward a City of Creative Industry：Creative Industry Initiatives in Chongqing（2006—2008） 98
5.3 An Ethnographic Study 99
5.3.1 Research Questions，Interview Questions and Data Collection 99
5.3.2 Data 100
5.3.3 Findings＆Discussions 109
5.4 Conclusion 111
BIBLIOGRAPHY 113