Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to to...

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description Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to today. Going beyond fact-based journalism, reportage is pursued through a variety of artistic forms and media, from nonfiction writing to photography to documentary film. Reportage’s plurimedial representations facilitate and amplify intersectional struggles against multiple forms of social and political oppression. Engaging its audiences in affective ethico-political exchanges with (human or nonhuman) subjects, reportage promotes audiences’ empathetic responses to the democratic appeals of marginalized groups whose status, identity, or situation manifest emergent ethical challenges in the society of their time. This work offers new understandings of reportage’s dialectical relationship with its readership by evoking sympathetic identifications with personal contemplations of place, hearth, and senses of belonging. Covering a breadth of media across mainland China, Taiwan, and the Sinophone diaspora in the United States and Japan, this book examines how intermediality cultivates distinctive expressions in reportage, cross-cultural empathy, and ethico-political relationships between the reporter, photographer, filmmaker, and their surroundings.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1737462026-03-19T14:11:50Z Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World Laughlin, Charles A. Guo, Li Chinese and Sinophone reportage Art of the real Lived and historical actualities Subjectivity Ethics Ethico-aesthetic paradigm Affective reverberations Non-fiction art Photographic reportage Documentary film Observational documentaries Taiwanese reportage Race in reportage Women's reportage Chinese diasporic cultures Subversive discourse in reportage Ethical response-ability Realism Epistemic encounters Plurimedial reportage thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP2 News media and journalism Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World examines reportage as an important aesthetic form of cultural production in the Sinophone world. Originating as a proletarian nonfiction form in interwar Europe, reportage spread around the world, coming into its own in the Sinophone world from the 1930s to today. Going beyond fact-based journalism, reportage is pursued through a variety of artistic forms and media, from nonfiction writing to photography to documentary film. Reportage’s plurimedial representations facilitate and amplify intersectional struggles against multiple forms of social and political oppression. Engaging its audiences in affective ethico-political exchanges with (human or nonhuman) subjects, reportage promotes audiences’ empathetic responses to the democratic appeals of marginalized groups whose status, identity, or situation manifest emergent ethical challenges in the society of their time. This work offers new understandings of reportage’s dialectical relationship with its readership by evoking sympathetic identifications with personal contemplations of place, hearth, and senses of belonging. Covering a breadth of media across mainland China, Taiwan, and the Sinophone diaspora in the United States and Japan, this book examines how intermediality cultivates distinctive expressions in reportage, cross-cultural empathy, and ethico-political relationships between the reporter, photographer, filmmaker, and their surroundings. 2026-03-19T14:11:49Z 2026-03-19T14:11:49Z 2026-03-16T16:12:34Z 2026 book ONIX_20260316T122833_9780472905492_11 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/111727 9780472905492 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/173746 eng China Understandings Today open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/111727/1/9780472905492.pdf Michigan State University Press University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.12992804 10.3998/mpub.12992804 aa7f6664-5117-41d8-90f8-c3af56526b92 9780472905492 University of Michigan Press 306 open access
spellingShingle Chinese and Sinophone reportage
Art of the real
Lived and historical actualities
Subjectivity
Ethics
Ethico-aesthetic paradigm
Affective reverberations
Non-fiction art
Photographic reportage
Documentary film
Observational documentaries
Taiwanese reportage
Race in reportage
Women's reportage
Chinese diasporic cultures
Subversive discourse in reportage
Ethical response-ability
Realism
Epistemic encounters
Plurimedial reportage
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP2 News media and journalism
Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title_full Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title_fullStr Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title_full_unstemmed Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title_short Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World
title_sort reportage in the chinese speaking world
topic Chinese and Sinophone reportage
Art of the real
Lived and historical actualities
Subjectivity
Ethics
Ethico-aesthetic paradigm
Affective reverberations
Non-fiction art
Photographic reportage
Documentary film
Observational documentaries
Taiwanese reportage
Race in reportage
Women's reportage
Chinese diasporic cultures
Subversive discourse in reportage
Ethical response-ability
Realism
Epistemic encounters
Plurimedial reportage
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP2 News media and journalism
topic_facet Chinese and Sinophone reportage
Art of the real
Lived and historical actualities
Subjectivity
Ethics
Ethico-aesthetic paradigm
Affective reverberations
Non-fiction art
Photographic reportage
Documentary film
Observational documentaries
Taiwanese reportage
Race in reportage
Women's reportage
Chinese diasporic cultures
Subversive discourse in reportage
Ethical response-ability
Realism
Epistemic encounters
Plurimedial reportage
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP2 News media and journalism
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