China The human-animal connection in Chinese cinema: Jia Zhangke as an example May 28, 2019 0 Written by Winnie L.M. Yee. Image Credit: Dog by bfishadow/Flickr, Licence: CC BY 2.0. Environmental issues have become an increasingly important topic for scholars and artists…
Asia The global failure of cinematic soft power ‘with Chinese characteristics’ May 27, 2019 0 Written by Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park. Image Credit: At the Cinema by Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr, Licence CC-BY 2.0. Traditionally, imperial China deployed state Confucianism as its ultimate…
China First person, second language: Autobiographical documentaries by women in the Chinese diaspora May 24, 2019 0 Written by Gina Marchetti. Image Credit: Roll of Film by Dale Mastin-Purcell/Flickr, Licence CC BY-ND 2.0. Thanks to the visibility of Nanfu Wang’s Hooligan Sparrow (2016) on feminist…
China The Chinese film industry’s rollercoaster ride May 17, 2019 1 Written by Chris Berry. Image Credit: FEFF 14 foto gruppo by Davide Gabino (aka Stròlic Furlàn)/Flickr, Licence: CC BY-ND 2.0. How is the Chinese film industry doing?…
China Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Celebration Films and the government-led commercialisation of the Chinese film industry March 8, 2019 0 Written by Qi Ai. The creation and development of Feng Xiaogang’s New Year Celebration Films (hesui pian, henceforth referred to as NYCFs) corresponds with the…
Asia The value of soft power in foreign policy February 18, 2019 1 Written by Sabena Siddiqui. Underestimating the value of ‘soft power’ is the worst mistake any nation can make in this age of constant communication and…
China Contemporary Chinese revolutionary spy-themed TV serials and their uses June 5, 2018 0 Written by Shenshen Cai. As a recognised TV drama subgenre, the revolutionary spy-themed TV serial is unique within the contemporary Chinese media-sphere. Similar to the…
Chinese media Controlling the Chinese information environment November 6, 2017 0 Written by James Farley and Jonathan Sullivan. Authoritarians share the desire to control the frames, histories, discourses, ideas, narratives and opinions that constitute the “information…
China China’s ‘Media War’ before and During the 19th Party Congress October 24, 2017 1 Written by Hongwei Bao. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) understands the importance of controlling the media for such an important conference: on the one hand,…
China The “empty nest” is not empty: The vanishing boundary and immersive communication in China engages the elderly August 4, 2017 0 Written by Qin Li. The elderly whose children have left the household are referred to as “empty nesters”. Empty nesters experience both a personal life…
