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Ethnic Minority Cinema in China s Nation State Building China Understandings Today

by [Lo, Kwai-Cheung]

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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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  • University of Michigan Pr Brand
  • Feb 3, 2025 Pub Date:
  • 9780472057276 ISBN-13:
  • 0472057278 ISBN-10:
  • 302.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.8 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: