List of Illustrations Figure 1.1. Zhang Xiaping’s nervous breakdown in Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing. 5 Figure 2.1. American documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman in China. Squatting in the foreground left is Duan Jinchuan, and right is Wu Wenguang. The author is the woman standing in the middle of the picture. 26 Figure 2.2. Jiang Yue’s The Other Bank. 33 Figure 2.3. Hu Xinyu’s The Man. 35 Figure 2.4. Ou Ning and Cao Fei’s Sanyuanli. 39 Figure 2.5. Huang Weikai’s Floating. 40 Figure 2.6. Duan Jinchuan and Jiang Yue’s The Storm. 47 Figure 3.1. Jiang Hu: Life on the Road. 52 Figure 4.1. West of the Tracks. The factories. 61 Figure 4.2. West of the Tracks. The residential neighborhood. 68 Figure 5.1. Dyke March. Director Shi Tou enacts a “coming out” before the camera, obliterating the boundary between filmmaker and her subjects. 81