China The importance of film diplomacy for cultural relations between the UK and China January 28, 2020 0 Image Credit: Curzon Cinema, Canterbury by ijclark/Flickr; licence CC BY 2.0. Written by Hiu Man Chan. Compared to other EU countries, the UK is certainly…
China Rising creativity and the enduring main melody: Trends in China’s 2019 film market December 16, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Jonathan Kos-Read/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Yongli Li. Since 2015, many scholars and analysts have been predicting that the People’s Republic…
Art Reason to be hopeful: When ‘The Legend of 1900’ overtakes ‘Charlie’s Angels’ in China November 29, 2019 2 Image Credit: Keys by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Hiu Man Chan. If this is not a miracle, it is certainly strong…
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 UK Films at Shanghai International Film Festival 2019 and Cultural Diplomacy June 17, 2019 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Image Credit: Shanghai Film Museum Camera Row by spezz/Flickr, License: CC BY 2.0. The Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) will take place…
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 Imagining the countryside in Chinese cinema May 20, 2019 0 Written by Qijun Han. Image Credit: Chinese countryside, rural view by FieldsportsChannel TV/Flickr licence CC by 2.0. The cinematic image of the Chinese countryside often appears to…
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 Mobile Film Projection in Socialist and Post-Socialist China May 8, 2015 0 Written by Tina Mai Chen. The study of propaganda in socialist and post-socialist China generally focuses on the content and aesthetic conventions of specific genres…
