Ethnic minority children in post-socialist Chinese cinema : allegory, identity, and geography
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Ethnic minority children in post-socialist Chinese cinema : allegory, identity, and geography
(RoutledgeCurzon media, culture and social change in Asia / series editor, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald)
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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  Iwate
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  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
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  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book examines the surprisingly large number of films about ethnic minority children in China, considering key questions such as Why are ethnic minority children becoming more intriguing to Chinese filmmakers? What are their roles in the films literally and allegorically? And how are they placed on screen geographically and why? It argues that ethnic minority children's appeal lies in their special relationship with childhood, ethnicity, nationalism, and rurality; and that for dominant Han urban adults and elite ethnic minorities they serve as "the other" for these people's construction of themselves as self-conscious modern subjects during China's rapid social-political transformations. This book explores the diversity of ways in which both Han and ethnic minority filmmakers take up the special features of ethnic minority children to facilitate their expression of certain ideas or ideals, as well as the roles of these films in their directing careers.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction: Ethnic minority children's allegorical functions, identity construction, and geographies in postsocialist Chinese cinema 2 Children, nature, and animals: Dai children's adventure in a forest 3 Natural landscapes as musical spaces: Uyghur children's yearnings in a national narrative 4 Beijing and rural Guizhou in focalisations: Miao children's relationships with the nation-state and ethnic tradition 5 Cinematic space in a relational construction: Heroes and a reconstruction of ethnic relationships through children's interethnic interactions 6 Grasslands as transitional spaces of play: Mongol children's reimagination of the world 7 A young lama as Sun Wukong: Contradictions and flexibility in a contemporary Tibetan child's identity construction 8 Conclusion: Some observations about the images of ethnic minority children in postsocialist Chinese cinema
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