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Chinese Identities on Screen

Author : Klaus Mühlhahn,Clemens von Haselberg
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9783643902702

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Chinese Identities on Screen by Klaus Mühlhahn,Clemens von Haselberg Pdf

Since 1978, the changes brought on by China's reforms have had an inevitable and significant impact on the development of literature, the arts, and the whole spectrum of culture. As well, contemporary Chinese films have reflected this transition towards commercialization and internationalization, which has included constant changes in cultural policies and the economic conditions for film production. The articles in this collection argue that contemporary Chinese films display a profound shift in identity construction. They explore Chinese identities related to class, nation, and gender, and they highlight aspects of individual identity. All of these are marked by contradiction, tension, multiple versions, changes over time, and other evidence of contingency and construction. The book draws attention to uncertain and unpredictable qualities of "Chineseness" which are often torn between past and present, but are also increasingly comprised of local, national, and global elements. (Series: Chinese History and Society / Berliner China-Hefte - Vol. 40)

The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens

Author : Gina Marchetti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1592135188

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The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens by Gina Marchetti Pdf

A look at Chinese filmmaking in the post-1989 American diaspora

Transnational Chinese Cinemas

Author : Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824865290

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Transnational Chinese Cinemas by Sheldon H. Lu Pdf

Zhang Yimou's first film, Red Sorghum, took the Golden Bear Award in 1988 at the Berlin International Film Festival. Since then Chinese films have continued to arrest worldwide attention and capture major film awards, winning an international following that continues to grow. Transnational Chinese Cinemas spans nearly the entire length of twentieth-century Chinese film history. The volume traces the evolution of Chinese national cinema, and demonstrates that gender identity has been central to its formation. Femininity, masculinity and sexuality have been an integral part of the filmic discourses of modernity, nationhood, and history. This volume represents the most comprehensive, wide-ranging, and up-to-date study of China's major cinematic traditions. It is an indispensable source book for modern Chinese and Asian history, politics, literature, and culture.

How East Asian Films are Reshaping National Identities

Author : Andrew David Jackson,Michael Gibb,Dave White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132195376

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How East Asian Films are Reshaping National Identities by Andrew David Jackson,Michael Gibb,Dave White Pdf

This collection of essays explores the mosaic of East Asian cinema by focusing on issues of identity, history and trans-regional cultural flow within this dynamic region. The argument of the editors is firstly, cinematic cross-pollination within East Asian film has been a constant since 1945, and second, any discussion of the complex identity of East Asia and its national cinemas must consider regional historical issues. These arguments run counter to recent literature published in the field of East Asian cinema that claim responses to Western globalization and modernization are the shaping forces for Asian cultural identity.

China's Interaction with the World

Author : Jens Damm,Mechthild Leutner,Niu Dayong
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643909602

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China's Interaction with the World by Jens Damm,Mechthild Leutner,Niu Dayong Pdf

The rapidly changing role of China - once an isolated pariah state, now a G-20 member and an emerging superpower in Asia and beyond - is one of the factors to be considered in any conceptualization of the current state of global affairs. The articles in this issue offer preliminary insights into the expansive topic of China's diversified economic, political and cultural interactions with the world. U.S. policies towards Tibet during the Cold War period are examined as well as current global Chinese business networks, China's foreign policy in the 21st century, and the developing relations between China and the five Central Asian states. Jens Damm is an Associate Professor at Chang Jung University, Tainan. He is currently leading a three-year research project at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Mechthild Leutner is Professor emerita of Modern Chinese History and Culture at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Niu Dayong is a Professor of the History Department, Peking University. His research is mainly focused on the interactions between China and foreign powers in recent decades.

The Chinese Cinema Book

Author : Song Hwee Lim,Julian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781911239550

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The Chinese Cinema Book by Song Hwee Lim,Julian Ward Pdf

This revised and updated new edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of cinema in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as to disaporic and transnational Chinese film-making, from the beginnings of cinema to the present day. Chapters by leading international scholars are grouped in thematic sections addressing key historical periods, film movements, genres, stars and auteurs, and the industrial and technological contexts of cinema in Greater China.

Directory of World Cinema: China 2

Author : Gary Bettinson
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783204014

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Directory of World Cinema: China 2 by Gary Bettinson Pdf

Since the publication of the first volume of Directory of World Cinema: China, the Chinese film industry has intensified its efforts to make inroads into the American market. The 2012 acquisition of US theatre chain AMC and visual effects house Digital Domain by Chinese firms testifies to the global ambitions of China’s powerhouse film industry. Yet Chinese cinema has had few crossover hits in recent years to match the success of such earlier films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; House of Flying Daggers and Kung Fu Hustle. Yet even overseas revenue for Chinese movies has dwindled, domestic market growth has surged year after year. Indeed, annual production output remains healthy, and the daily expansion of screens in second-or third-tier cities attracts audiences whose tastes favour domestic films over foreign imports.

The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia

Author : Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000911688

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The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia by Lu Zhouxiang Pdf

This handbook presents a comprehensive survey of the formation and transformation of nationalism in 15 East and Southeast Asian countries. Written by a team of international scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines, this volume offers new perspectives on studying Asian history, society, culture, and politics, and provides readers with a unique lens through which to better contextualise and understand the relationships between countries within East and Southeast Asia, and between Asia and the world. It highlights the latest developments in the field and contributes to our knowledge and understanding of nationalism and nation building. Comprehensive and clearly written, this book examines a diverse set of topics that include theoretical considerations on nationalism and internationalism; the formation of nationalism and national identity in the colonial and postcolonial eras; the relationships between traditional culture, religion, ethnicity, education, gender, technology, sport, and nationalism; the influence of popular culture on nationalism; and politics, policy, and national identity. It illustrates how nationalism helped to draw the borders between the nations of East and Southeast Asia, and how it is re-emerging in the twenty-first century to shape the region and the world into the future. The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia is essential reading for those interested in and studying Asian history, Social and Cultural history, and modern history.

Televising Chineseness

Author : Geng Song
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780472220045

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Televising Chineseness by Geng Song Pdf

The serial narrative is one of the most robust and popular forms of storytelling in contemporary China. With a domestic audience of one billion-plus and growing transnational influence and accessibility, this form of storytelling is becoming the centerpiece of a fast-growing digital entertainment industry and a new symbol and carrier of China’s soft power. Televising Chineseness: Gender, Nation, and Subjectivity explores how television and online dramas imagine the Chinese nation and form postsocialist Chinese gendered subjects. The book addresses a conspicuous paradox in Chinese popular culture today: the coexistence of increasingly diverse gender presentations and conservative gender policing by the government, viewers, and society. Using first-hand data collected through interviews and focus group discussions with audiences comprising viewers of different ages, genders, and educational backgrounds, Televising Chineseness sheds light on how television culture relates to the power mechanisms and truth regimes that shape the understanding of gender and the construction of gendered subjects in postsocialist China.

Race in American Film [3 volumes]

Author : Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780313398407

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Race in American Film [3 volumes] by Daniel Bernardi,Michael Green Pdf

This expansive three-volume set investigates racial representation in film, providing an authoritative cross-section of the most racially significant films, actors, directors, and movements in American cinematic history. Hollywood has always reflected current American cultural norms and ideas. As such, film provides a window into attitudes about race and ethnicity over the last century. This comprehensive set provides information on hundreds of films chosen based on scholarly consensus of their importance regarding the subject, examining aspects of race and ethnicity in American film through the historical context, themes, and people involved. This three-volume set highlights the most important films and artists of the era, identifying films, actors, or characterizations that were considered racist, were tremendously popular or hugely influential, attempted to be progressive, or some combination thereof. Readers will not only learn basic information about each subject but also be able to contextualize it culturally, historically, and in terms of its reception to understand what average moviegoers thought about the subject at the time of its popularity—and grasp how the subject is perceived now through the lens of history.

China's New Silk Road Dreams

Author : Noesselt Nele
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643913494

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China's New Silk Road Dreams by Noesselt Nele Pdf

The contributions compiled in this issue engage in critical evaluation of China's "New Silk Road initiative" ("Belt and Road Initiative" [BRI]) by focusing on the potential long-term political and economic effects and implications for Sino-EUropean and Sino-African relations. The authors take the launching of the BRI (October 2013) as a starting point for a general, theory-guided qualitative re-evaluation of the basic patterns of Chinese foreign relations and global interactions under the fifth generation of Chinese political leaders. In 2013, the Chinese state president, Xi Jinping, framed BRI as a global connectivity network consisting of a multitude of overland passages and maritime transportation corridors. Xi Jinping's report to the 19th Party Congress (2017) set the BRI as an anchor concept of China's fine-tuned foreign strategy in the 21st century.

Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China

Author : Xiaolong Wu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107134027

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Material Culture, Power, and Identity in Ancient China by Xiaolong Wu Pdf

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth study of a mysterious state of China's Warring States Period (476-221 BCE): the Zhongshan.

Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II

Author : Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789622092075

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Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese Since World War II by Jennifer Cushman,Gungwu Wang Pdf

In June 1985, a symposium, "Changing Identities of the Southeast Asian Chinese since World War II" was held at the Australian National University in Canberra. This volume includes many of the papers from that symposium presented by ANU scholars and those from universities elsewhere in Australia, North America and Southeast Asia. Participants looked at the current thinking about the parameters of identity and shared their own research into the complex issues that overlapping categories of identity raise. Identity was chosen as the focus of the, symposium because perceptions of self - whether by others or by the individual Chinese concerned - appear to lie at the heart ' of the present-day Chinese experience in Southeast Asia, It is also evident that identity wears many guises and that we cannot talk about a single Chinese identity when identity can be determined by the different political, social, economic or religious circumstances an individual faces at any given time. One of the distinctive characteristics of all the essays in this volume is that they are written from an historical perspective. While the papers forcus on how recent developments in Southeast Asian society have shaped Chinese identity, they also discuss those changes in terms of the historical matrix from which they developed. Because many of the essays in this volume combine an historical overview with more recent statistical data, it should serve as a useful companion to the increasingly popular case studies in which much of the writing about the Chinese in Southeast Asia is now cast.

Adapted for the Screen

Author : Hsiu-Chuang Deppman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780824833732

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Adapted for the Screen by Hsiu-Chuang Deppman Pdf

Hsiu-Chang Deppman puts landmark contemporary Chinese films in the context of their literary origins & explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives & styles for film.

Operatic China

Author : D. Lei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137061638

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Operatic China by D. Lei Pdf

In this study Lei focuses on the notion of 'performing Chinese' in traditional opera in the 'contact zones', where two or more cultures, ethnicities, and/or ideologies meet and clash. This work seeks to create discourse among theatre and performance studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and transnational and diasporic studies.