"Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the "Urban Generation" rubric is their creative engagement with the w ..."
"Since the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the "Urban Generation" rubric is their creative engagement with the wrenching eco ..."
"This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. Yet as the rich case studies illustrate, the sheer variety of alternative film culture itself provides sufficient opport ..."
"This groundbreaking book presents a critical introduction to the cultural and political dimensions of contemporary Chinese cinema. Leading Western and Chinese scholars trace the changing dynamics of Chinese film culture since the early 1990s as it moves away from underground and toward independence in the new century. Yet as the rich case studies illustrate, the sheer variety of alternative film culture itself provides sufficient opport ..."
New Chinese-Language Documentaries(1st Edition) Ethics, Subject and Place (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series) by Kuei-Fen Chiu, YingjinZhang Hardcover, 266 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-72206-3, ISBN: 0-415-72206-3
"Documentary filmmaking is one of the most vibrant areas of media activity in the Chinese world, with many independent filmmakers producing documentaries that deal with a range of sensitive socio-political problems, bringing to their work a strongly ethical approach. This book identifies notable similarities and crucial differences between new Chinese-language documentaries in mainland China and Taiwan. It out ..."
Screening China(Updated) Critical Interventions, Cinematic Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese Cinema (Volume 92) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies) by YingjinZhang Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2002 by Center For Chinese Studies, The Universi ISBN-13: 978-0-89264-158-1, ISBN: 0-89264-158-4
"Yingjin Zhang guides the reader through the development of Chinese film criticism, pointing out that Western critics have studied a comparatively small number of films from a much larger body of work, often with a unidirectional Eurocentric bias. The result has been that the few have influenced the many, perpetuating a cycle of production of films from China that bow to the Western notion of "Chineseness." As a corrective, the author in ..."
"Ultimately, 55 Days at Peking imagines Beijing—a synecdoche of China—as an
empire in ruins, a collapsed civilization desperately awaiting rescue or salvation
from the West. The extent to which Western filmmakers insisted on reliving the
past glory of imperialist conquest at the heights of the Cold War is demonstrated
in the production of 55 Days at Peking in the early 1960s, which ran into financial
difficulties from the start. In ..."
"Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting ..."
"Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia is the first attempt to explore how the tumultuous years between 1931 and 1953 have been recreated and renegotiated in cinema. This period saw traumatic conflicts such as the Sino-Japanese War, the Pacific War, and the Korean War, and pivotal events such as the Rape of Nanjing, Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Iwo Jima, and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which left a lasting ..."
"... Qing and Early Republican China . ” Modern China 1–35 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700420976603 . Lei , Jun . 2022. Mastery ... Liu Na'ou . 2016a . " Liyi yu weisheng " In Liu Na'ou xiaoshu ji ( Chinese ( Complete Works of Liang Qichao ) ..."
"The sections cover the circulation and reception of China in World Literature, as well as the worlds of: Chinese Literature Across the Globe Borders, Oceans and Rainforests Comparative Literary Genres Translingual Writers and Scholars ..."
"This book probes many crucial controversies: What are Taiwan's meaningful cultural and historical connections to Japan? How do Taiwanese filmmakers and audiences feel about mainland China?"
New Chinese-Language Documentaries(1st Edition) Ethics, Subject and Place (Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series) by Kuei-Fen Chiu, YingjinZhang Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-138-57790-9, ISBN: 1-138-57790-1
"Documentary filmmaking is one of the most vibrant areas of media activity in the Chinese world, with many independent filmmakers producing documentaries that deal with a range of sensitive socio-political problems, bringing to their work a strongly ethical approach. This book identifies notable similarities and crucial differences between new Chinese-language documentaries in mainland China and Taiwan. It outlines how documentary filmma ..."
Filming the Everyday Independent Documentaries in Twenty-First-Century China by Paul G. Pickowicz, YingjinZhang 212 Pages, Published 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-7025-1, ISBN: 1-4422-7025-X
"In some ways, CCD has an almost utopian vision, but how is it realized in the
pragmatic and economically dominated environment of contemporary China? Wu
Wenguang: I should start by saying that I am not a good artist for the avant-garde.
I tried to be, I spent a long time trying to be a good experimental artist. I wanted to
be avant-garde, because I wanted people to know that I was very famous! (
laughs) As you know, that's the way f ..."
"... content, reflecting human interaction with the animal and plant communities in
the diverse landscapes and bio‐regions of the area (Bender 2012a). Jidi Majia
emerged as one of the first minority poets to gain mainstream recognition in the
transitional era ... He was influenced by international writers as varied as Pablo
Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, and Walt Whitman. ... A recurrent technique in his work
is the use of traditional im ..."
"What Ge Fei's narrator–investigator encounters throughout the narrative is the
first form of forgetting, “erasure of traces,” and through this very process, the
author Ge Fei hopes to release “the reserve of forgetting” in order to awaken
memories, the second form of forgetting. The unforgettable is the kernel
manifested in a certain mysterious, unspeakable event that the villagers are
reluctant to talk about; the unforgettable is ..."
"Introduction: ethics and documentary triangulation In light of the importance of
directing attention to issues of spatiality and subjectivity (see Chapter 4), this
chapter delineates a conceptual move from a repositioning of the artist as self to
the ethics in documentary triangulation and on to the metaphor of “subject to
movement” that prioritizes passing (motion) over being (essence) for Chinese
documentary.1 Specifically, we fo ..."