[Marxism] 24 City

[Louis Proyect]

Opening at the IFC Center in NY on June 5, “24 City” is the latest 
envelope-pushing movie by Jia Zhang-ke. Incorporating fictional 
elements, this documentary casts a cold and clinical eye on the new 
China and expresses nostalgia for the Maoist system symbolized by an 
actual state-owned munitions factory replete with “Iron rice bowl” 
support pillars. Named “Factory 240”, as an internal security code for 
the Chengdu Engine Group, it is about to relocated in order to make room 
for an enormous real estate development geared to China’s rising 
professional classes and called “24 City”.

full: http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/24-city/