editing suggestions

recent scholarship, by scholars such as: Dong Limin in 2013; Gail Hershatter in 2007 and 20ll, respectively; Wang Lingzhen in 2013; Wang Zheng in 2005; and Zong and Wang et al., in 2001, urge a reconsideration of 

helps reclaim the unrealized potential of socialist imaginations (not "recuperate")  or recapture

in the  early twentieth century China 
in the early twentieth century Shanghai 

The film draws on the notion of retribution