postsocialist cinema in post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution chris berry Routledge 2004

P13 This book moves in the other historical direction to ask whether this qualitative change first manifest itself in the cinema in the films under consideration here in the late seventies. Furthermore, the term adopted here for this new social and cultural condition is "post socialism.".. In Chinese studies, Arif Dirlik coined this term with different intensions before the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.

Arif Dirlik, "post-socialism? Reflections on 'socialism with chinese characteristics'," in Marxism and the Chinese Experience, ed. Arif Dirlik and Maurice Meisner 1989
Tang Xiaobing,"The function of New theory: what does it mean to talk about postmodernism in China?" in Politics, Ideology and Literary Discourse in Modern China, ed Liu Kang and Tang xiaobing

I have also used the term to discuss late 1980s's cinema, attempting to extend Pickowicz's discussion by explicitly invoking its etymological roots in the "postmodern" and considering whether postsocialism is a specific form of postmodernism.

berry and Mary Ann Farquhar, "post-socialist strategies: an analysis of Yellow Earth and Black Canon Incident," in Cinematic landscapes: observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan

Mark Poster, Foucault, Marxism and History: Mode of production versus Mode of information (London: Polity press, 1984)