"Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema is thoroughly researched and carefully written, examining the early generations of Chinese filmmaking to establish a firm historical foundation from which the argument about the recent rebel films grows. Zhou's

"Zhou Xuelin renders vivid a heretofore neglected spectrum of Mainland cinema for the interdisciplinary areas of popular culture, media and society. His critical survey of social rebel films of post-Mao China characterised by increasing consumerism and in

"Zhou Xuelin's Young Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cinema is a very exciting addition to the burgeoning field of Chinese film studies. The scope of Zhou's research is extraordinarily deep and broad, and among the other achievements of Young Rebels is its

Zhou Xuelin is lecturer in the Department of Film, Television and Media Studies of the University of Auckland. He has publications on British popular culture and Chinese-language film, and his recent research focuses on the representation of "marginalized youth" in a variety of national and semi-national cinemas in East Asia, such as those of Japan, South Korea, mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.