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 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 The Reception of British Films at Shanghai International Film Festival 2018 and Modern Cultural Diplomacy August 31, 2018 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Although unknown by many in the UK, every year at the two major international film festivals in China (Beijing &…
China British film has a golden opportunity in Chinese video on demand August 31, 2018 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. Video on demand (VOD) services are big business across the world. At present, Netflix alone boasts an international audience of 130m. By…
Asia Documentaries, rom-coms – and tentative first steps in a new era of Sino-British film collaboration August 3, 2018 0 Written by Hiu Man Chan. The era of Sino-British film co-production has arrived. Although the UK’s film industry has been slightly behind Hollywood in pursuing…
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).…
China Yu Xiuhua: Travelling Through the Mud of Life by Poetry December 6, 2017 0 Written by Dian Li. 2015 started with a bang for Yu Xiuhua. In a span of months, her name graced front pages of newspapers, prime-time…
