王晓平，华侨大学特聘教授，学科带头人，上海交通大学人文艺术研究院兼职教授，厦门大学国学院及嘉庚学院兼职教授。先后在北京大学中文系、香港科技大学人文学部、美国科罗拉多大学比较文学系博士项目、美国德克萨斯大学亚洲研究系攻读，获博士学位。曾任厦门大学中文系教授，中国现当代文学教研室代理主任，国家“孔子新汉学计划”首批博士生导师，澳门大学人文学院博士后研究员。

Introduction
Part Ⅰ Records of Epochal Vanguard
Chapter 1 Dirt (1992): The Bildungsroman of Non-Mainstream Youth of the 1980s
Chapter 2 In the Heat of the Sun (1994): Remembrance of the "Era of Enlightenment"
Part Ⅱ Transcriptions of Youthful Passion
Chapter 3 Weekend Lover (1995): Fable of Indulgence and Self-Annihilation
Chapter 4 The Making of Steel (1997): Why Steel Could Not Be Successfully Made
Part Ⅲ Middle Class Culture and Its Distinction
Chapter 5 A Room for Two People (2008): China's Middle Class and Its Cultural
Life
Chapter 6 Green Tea (2003): Taste of the "Middle Class" and Its Historical Amnesia
Part Ⅳ Postmodern Panorama and Simulacrum
Chapter 7 The World (2004): Post-Modern Paradise or Post-Revolutionary Fantasy?
Chapter 8 The Contract (2006): The Chinese Version of"Pretty Woman".
Part Ⅴ HistoricalIntrospection and Projection 131
Chapter 9 24 City (2008): Orchestrating Workers' Memories and National History.
Chapter 10 Eleven Flowers (2012): Conservative Projection in the Memory of a Teenager
Conclusion
References

本书精选分析中国1990年代以来新生代导演制作的十部在国内外公开发行放映的艺术电影，从文学批评和文化研究的角度进行历史阐释，由此揭示了这些艺术影像所呈现的时代纪录和历史影像。本书适合文学爱好者、电影发烧友、文化研究者阅读。