Abstract:  A Chinese Odyssey and Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons might be seen as the mirror image of China' s social ideology and mass psychology in the 1990s and 2010s respectively. As one of the most renowned cultural event in the 1990s, A Chinese Odyssey triggered a revolution in both the ways of expression and value orientation. It has had a penetrating influence on people' s daily life and changed a whole generation' s way of thinking, their spiritual structure, and attitudes toward life. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, which was produced 20 years later, tries instead to reconstruct moral values and spiritual belief on the ruins that A Chinese Odyssey has made. The values deconstructed in A Chinese Odyssey have been reaffirmed in this movie. The reversal of value orientation in the two films vividly mirrors the evolution of China' s social psychology in the recent 20 years from deconstruction to construction, from subversion to reconstruction, and from nihilism to a renewed interest in faith.

Key words: A Chinese Odyssey , Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons , value subversion, value reconstruction, social psychology