Zhantai

When Deng Xiao-ping institutes an "open door" cultural policy and China begins to move toward Western-influenced consumer capitalism, the newly privatized group starts to sport spandex and play electric guitars. It's sex, cigarettes and rock-n-roll until dreams are deferred. Platform, the precursor to Jia's Unknown Pleasures, offers vivid insight into modern China. (Verleiher-Text)