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Part I. Historical overview. Introduction / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel ; Rethinking China's new documentary movement : engagement with the social / Lu Xinyu, translated by Tan Jia and Lisa Rofel, edited by Lisa Rofel and Chris Berry ; DV : individual filmmaking / Wu Wenguang, translated by Cathryn Clayton

Part II. Documenting marginalization, or identities new and old. West of the tracks : history and class-consciousness / Lu Xinyu, translated by J.X. Zhang ; Coming out of The box, marching as dykes / Chao Shi-Yan

Part III. Publics, counter-publics, and alternative publics. Blowup Beijing : the city as a twilight zone / Paola Voci ; Watching documentary : critical public discourses and contemporary urban Chinese film clubs / Seio Nakajima ; Alternative archive : China's independent documentary culture / Chris Berry and Lisa Rofel

Part IV. Between filmmaker and subject : re-creating realism. Translating the unspeakable : on-screen and off-screen voices in Wu Wenguang's documentary work / Bérénice Reynaud ; From "public" to "private" : Chinese documentary and the logic of xianchang / Luke Robinson ; Excuse me, your camera is in my face : auteurial intervention in PRC new documentary / Yomi Braester ; "I am one of them" and "they are my actors" : performing, witnessing, and DV image-making in plebian China / Yiman Wang.