From Auto-ethnography to Autobiography: Representations of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Cinema Jie Li November 2007 Feature Articles This article examines the representation of history in ‘Fifth’ and ‘Sixth’ generation Chinese cinema, in particular that of Zhang Yimou’s To Live and Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine in contradistinction to Jiang Wen’s In the Heat of the Sun and Jia Zhangke’s Platform.
