Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola : Chinese Avant-garde Art and Independent Cinema is a 2009 non-fiction book by Xiaoping Lin, published by the University of Hawaii Press.

[2] The title refers to the phrase "the children of Marx and Coca-Cola" stated in Masculin Féminin, by Jean-Luc Godard.

[3] The three parts are, in order: "Re-creating Urban Space in Avant-garde Art," "China’s Lost Youth through the Lens of Independent Cinema,"[1] and "In Quest of Meaning in a Spiritual Void: Film and Video.

[6] Films are discussed in "The Imagery of Postsocialist Trauma in Peacock, Shanghai Dreams, and Stolen Life," the sixth chapter.

[7] Ting Wang, an independent scholar, stated that "the book acquires its significance in helping non-Chinese researchers and students to gain a much-needed better understanding" of the topic; Wang criticized how he "overshadows or distracts from the originality of his own argument" by unnecessarily citing other portions of works and adding "meticulous research" which "are sometimes only tangentially related to the topic at hand".