China on Video is an ambitious undertaking, a fascinating read, and an original and rigorous work of interdisciplinary scholarship. With extensive command of research literature in film, media, cultural studies, and Chinese art and literary history, Paola Voci challenges these fields' existing boundaries by engaging with an extremely interesting and previously neglected body of smaller-screen movies circulating in China today. Displayed primarily on computer screens and cell phones, these movies cost little to make, circulate mostly online among a volatile community of viewers, and, as Voci shows throughout the book, have distinctly "light" aesthetic qualities and social practices that elude existing analytical frameworks. Drawing inspiration from Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Voci proposes the concept of "lightness" to grasp the ontology, aesthetics, and politics of this cinema. She
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