"This volume investigates the Chinese Bildungsroman from the global sixties to the precarious present, and from intensely humanist dreams to dark visions of the end of the Anthropocene. Drawing on an exciting range of literary and cinematic perspectives on what it means to come of age in the Sinosphere, the contributors to this wide-ranging book explore adolescence as both a privately vivid time of life and a potent force for systemic change."
—Margaret Hillenbrand, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture, Oxford University
"A significant contribution to Sinophone and comparative studies, this interdisciplinary volume powerfully illustrates how Bildungsroman and coming-of-age narratives across literature and film confront historical trauma, ideological upheaval, environmental degradation, and global precarity. It offers a compelling reflection on adolescence as a site of resistance, remembrance, and reinvention—shedding new light on the culture and politics of growing up in a fractured, interconnected world."
—Weijie Song, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, Rutgers University