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…
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 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 The 10 Best Chinese Language Movies of 2017 (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan) March 2, 2018 0 Written by Panos Kotzathanasis. 2017 has been a very interesting year for the Chinese-speaking world (allow me not to dwell on the politics of the matter).…
Film An interview with Betty Ho and Roger Lee November 19, 2017 0 Interviewed by Panos Kotzathanasis. On the occasion of Roger Lee’s collaborations with Ann Hui and the screening at the Five Flavours Film Festival, supported by HK…
China The Other Side of China’s Fast-Growing Economy and Jia Zhangke’s Filmic World July 7, 2017 0 Written by Yuxing Zhou. The past decade has witnessed an increasing quantity and variety in film production in mainland China. Annul box-office results and production…
China Of Land and Activism: A Glimpse into Hong Kong’s Documentaries on Farming July 6, 2017 0 Written by Winnie L. M. Yee. Environmental problems have become a pressing issue throughout the world. China, like many other countries that are trying to…