It's significant that some of the filmmakers in the forefront of that charge are from the generation of the elders, innovators of the seventies.
Senior appointments in China are made by consensus among the political elite, with the elder generation of leaders accorded a prominent say in selecting junior officials they expect to accede to the top posts a decade or more down the road.
A younger generation of musicians now elders, like Eddie Palmieri and Ray Barretto (who died in February), who are interviewed met playing stickball and grew up on mambo, going on to streamline and sharpen it into salsa.
Mr. Jiang and other elders are deeply engaged in the backstage negotiations to appoint the next generation of leaders.
In some ways typical of an elder generation of journalists, Jack is also extraordinary, both in that he has survived so long in newspapers and that in him the literary and reporting gift are in balance.
This elder generation of McCainiacs governed during the era of conservative ascendancy, but they were not the champions of the movement's rise.
Half are classics, and half are pulpy psychosexual dramas with the kind of morally questionable guys that fascinate and scare the elder generation of women in my family.
Their book, written in part-novelistic, part-journalistic style popular among an elder generation of social critics in China, is now available in a faithful if infelicitous translation.
A former haunt of an elder generation of America's wealthiest, the stretch of coastline once played host to Rockefellers, Astors and Vanderbilts.
