Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street

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The rise of independent documentary film production is the most radical development in the contemporary Chinese mediascape. This book is a sustained examination of Chinese independent documentary in relation to one of its central principles: xianchang, or being ‘on the scene’.