《Intellectual Constellations(1980-2008)》主要内容包括:Introduction、Soul and Flesh: The Novel、The Debate on the Meaning of the Novel、 Friendship, Affect, and Soul and Flesh Re-read、 Epilogue、Introduction: A Choreographed Encounter/non-encounter、Jia Zhangke's Aesthetics and Politics: Staring at the Real、The Real and the Ordinary、The Intellectuals、 Aesthetics vs Politics: Recording Without Representing等。