Call for papers by MCLC - special issue to be guest edited by Anup Grewal and Tie Xiao. Deadline: January 15, 2013

For most of the twentieth century, the imagery of both actual and imagined masses in action was central to evoking political discontent, power, and even subjectivity in different representational forms. Such imagery appears to be largely missing in contemporary China: either actively disappeared or relegated to crowds harnessed for state rituals, stirred up by entertainment, or yoked to a historical past in official politics and culture; and appearing as oblique and sometimes nostalgic imagination in the wider cultural realm.