Film Crazy Rich Asians and competing Asian subjectivities August 9, 2019 1 Written by Mark Gallagher. Image Credit (header image and included screenshots): Crazy Rich Asians (2018). Directed by Jon M. Chu. [Film]. US: Warner Bros. Enterntainment. The…
China Making history: Bohemian Rhapsody’s Chinese release and the story of its translation July 8, 2019 1 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Images Credit: Provided by the author. The national release of the multiple Oscar-winning film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) in China in March…
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?…
Film Qiong Yao films and Taiwan society May 15, 2019 0 Written by Xuelin Zhou. Image Credit: Cinema by Do u remember/Flickr, License CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1965 and 1983, fifty feature films were produced in Taiwan…
China Freddie Mercury in China May 14, 2019 2 Written by Hongwei Bao. Image Credit: Cathay Cinema by Christian MANGE/Flickr, License CC BY-ND 2.0. Freddie Mercury never went to China. He missed an opportunity to…
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…
China Peppa Pig celebrates Chinese New Year and provides the potential for a copyright campaign February 1, 2019 1 Written by Hiu Man Chan. The UK children’s animation Peppa Pig has caused a storm in the media both at home and in China recently…
