Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE Ethical and Political Stakes CHAPTER 1. Marking The Body CHAPTER 2. The Cruelty of the Social CHAPTER 3. Filming Power and the Powerless CHAPTER 4. The Spectacular Crowd CHAPTER 5. DV-Made Tibet CHAPTER 6. Chinese Independent Cinema in the Age of “Digital Distribution” PART TWO Aesthetic and Activist Experiments CHAPTER 7. Chinese Digital Shadows CHAPTER 8. The Recalcitrance of Reality CHAPTER 9. Crossing Cameras in China CHAPTER 10. DV and the Animateur Cinema in China CHAPTER 11. “To Whom Do Our Bodies Belong?” CHAPTER 12. Toward a Digital Political Mimesis APPENDIX I: Chinese and Non-Chinese Filmography/Videography APPENDIX II: Tibetan Filmography/ Videography Contributors Index