Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building
Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-first century. Kw...
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2025
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| author | Lo, Kwai-Cheung |
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| description | Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-first century. Kwai-Cheung Lo argues that the glossy, but superficial, cinematic depictions of non-Han ethnic minorities manufactured and manipulated by state authorities have deeply penetrated the Chinese public’s conception of what an ideal multiethnic nation should be like as well as what it means to be Chinese under political unification.
Lo understands these representations of ethnic minorities as part of a larger ecosystem and the cultures, values, and life practices of non-Han ethnic minorities as closely entwined with environmental issues and politics. This intertwining, Lo argues, suggests a crisis in “objectification and identification” of both people and the environment, that plays out in cinema featuring ethnic minorities. Lo traces these depictions of Chinese ethnic minority groups in films created by both Han-majority and non-Han filmmakers, examining how these representations became a site in which state authorities, Han and non-Han communities, and foreign agencies compete and interact under the larger context of building and imagining the Chinese nation-state. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1520382025-07-21T15:44:45Z Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building Lo, Kwai-Cheung China, ethnic minority cinema, nation-state building, ecosystem, ecological politics, cinematicity, ethnic gesture, Republican China, socialist China, musical, revolutionary voice, heterotopia, utopia, Chinggis Khan, Mongol, Islam, Uyghur, surveillance, biopolitics, Tibet cinema, Pema Tseden, Zhang Lu, cultural ecology, transnational filmmaking thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the current authoritarian regime in the twenty-first century. Kwai-Cheung Lo argues that the glossy, but superficial, cinematic depictions of non-Han ethnic minorities manufactured and manipulated by state authorities have deeply penetrated the Chinese public’s conception of what an ideal multiethnic nation should be like as well as what it means to be Chinese under political unification. Lo understands these representations of ethnic minorities as part of a larger ecosystem and the cultures, values, and life practices of non-Han ethnic minorities as closely entwined with environmental issues and politics. This intertwining, Lo argues, suggests a crisis in “objectification and identification” of both people and the environment, that plays out in cinema featuring ethnic minorities. Lo traces these depictions of Chinese ethnic minority groups in films created by both Han-majority and non-Han filmmakers, examining how these representations became a site in which state authorities, Han and non-Han communities, and foreign agencies compete and interact under the larger context of building and imagining the Chinese nation-state. 2025-02-17T05:43:26Z 2025-02-17T05:43:26Z 2025-01-30T13:44:22Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98111 9780472077274 9780472057276 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/152038 eng China Understandings Today open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98111/1/9780472904884.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.14415745 10.3998/mpub.14415745 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472077274 9780472057276 303 open access |
| spellingShingle | China, ethnic minority cinema, nation-state building, ecosystem, ecological politics, cinematicity, ethnic gesture, Republican China, socialist China, musical, revolutionary voice, heterotopia, utopia, Chinggis Khan, Mongol, Islam, Uyghur, surveillance, biopolitics, Tibet cinema, Pema Tseden, Zhang Lu, cultural ecology, transnational filmmaking thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Lo, Kwai-Cheung Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building |
| title | Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building |
| title_full | Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building |
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| title_short | Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building |
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| topic | China, ethnic minority cinema, nation-state building, ecosystem, ecological politics, cinematicity, ethnic gesture, Republican China, socialist China, musical, revolutionary voice, heterotopia, utopia, Chinggis Khan, Mongol, Islam, Uyghur, surveillance, biopolitics, Tibet cinema, Pema Tseden, Zhang Lu, cultural ecology, transnational filmmaking thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies |
| topic_facet | China, ethnic minority cinema, nation-state building, ecosystem, ecological politics, cinematicity, ethnic gesture, Republican China, socialist China, musical, revolutionary voice, heterotopia, utopia, Chinggis Khan, Mongol, Islam, Uyghur, surveillance, biopolitics, Tibet cinema, Pema Tseden, Zhang Lu, cultural ecology, transnational filmmaking thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies |
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