New Chinese-Language Documentaries

New Chinese-Language Documentaries
Author: Kuei-fen Chiu
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-11-21
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317936949

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Documentary filmmaking is one of the most vibrant areas of media activity in the Chinese world, with many independent filmmakers producing documentaries that deal with a range of sensitive socio-political problems, bringing to their work a strongly ethical approach. This book identifies notable similarities and crucial differences between new Chinese-language documentaries in mainland China and Taiwan. It outlines how documentary filmmaking has developed, contrasts independent documentaries with dominant official state productions, considers how independent documentary filmmakers go about their work, including the work of exhibiting their films and connecting with audiences, and discusses the content of their documentaries, showing how the filmmakers portray a wide range of subject matter regarding places and people, and how they deal with particular issues including the underprivileged, migrants and women in an ethical way. Throughout the book demonstrates how successful Chinese-language independent documentary filmmaking is, with many appearances at international film festivals and a growing number of award-winning titles.

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement
Author: Chris Berry
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2010-06-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9888028510

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The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed introduction to the topic of Chinese documentary film, the signature mode of contemporary Chinese visual culture. These essays examine how documentary filmmakers have opened up a unique new space of social commentary and critique in an era of rapid social changes amid globalization and marketization. The essays cover topics ranging from cruelty in documentary to the representation of Beijing; gay, lesbian and queer documentary; sound in documentary; the exhibition context in China; authorial intervention and subjectivity; and the distinctive "on the spot" aesthetics of contemporary Chinese documentary. This volume will be critical reading for scholars in disciplines ranging from film and media studies to Chinese studies and Asian studies.

Chinese Film Theory

Chinese Film Theory
Author: Xia Hong
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 245
Release: 1990-05-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0313367337

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This is the first collection of translations of Chinese film theory to be published in English. By using translations rather than summaries, as other works have done, Chinese Film Theory provides readers with an introduction to the issues current in China's film circles. It includes eighteen chapters written by a broad range of writers--from well established scholars to young people at the beginning of their involvement in film in China. This collection indicates a trend away from the study of external qualities of film and toward a study of the film itself. The volume has been carefully organized so that major issues are interrelated; thus, the book comprises an ongoing debate of film theory issues, progressing from earlier to most recent issues, following the debate concerning the relationship of film to literary arts, and looking at the debate over the relationship of film to culture. The book concludes that for the time being, debate has virtually ended because of the political situation in China. This book is an important new source to anyone interested in film studies, film theory, or Chinese studies.

Unbound Voices

Unbound Voices
Author: Judy Yung
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 560
Release: 1999-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520218604

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"A landmark contribution. . . . These rich materials—including proverbs, immigration interrogations, poems, articles, photographs, social workers' reports, recipes, and oral histories—add a new dimension to Asian American studies, U.S. women's history, Chinese American history, and immigration studies."—Valerie Matsumoto, University of California, Los Angeles

Notes On the Chinese Documentary Style

Notes On the Chinese Documentary Style
Author: Friedrich Hirth
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781020292514

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A comprehensive survey of the structure and characteristics of Chinese historical documents, with a focus on their linguistic and stylistic features. The book also discusses the historical context in which the documents were produced and the conventions of their transmission and preservation. The text is essential reading for scholars of Chinese language and history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Ecology and Chinese-language Cinema

Ecology and Chinese-language Cinema
Author: Sheldon H. Lu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Documentary films
ISBN: 9780367281083

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Introduction : revisiting the field of Chinese ecocinema / Haomin Gong -- Mapping Taiwanese ecodocumentary landscape : politics of aesthetics and environmental ethics in Taiwanese ecodocumentaries / Kuei-fen Chiu -- Nature in the city : a study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinema and Eco-Film Festival / Winnie L. M. Yee -- Three ecologies of cinema, migration, and the sea : Anchorage prohibited and Luzon / Elizebath Wijaya -- Tracing extraction in contemporary Chinese cinema : Tie Xi Qu and the politics of the resource image / Pietari Kääpä -- Chai Jing's Under the Dome : A Multimedia Documentary in the digital age / Shuqin Cui -- Global animal capital and animal garbage : documentary redemption and hope / Chia-ju Chang -- Transcendence and transgression : reading wolf totem as environmental world literature/cinema? / Haomin Gong -- Fabulating animals-human affinity : towards an ethics of care in monster hunt and mermaid / Fiona Yuk-wa Law -- Sinification by greening : politics, nature, and ethnic borderlands in Maoist ecocinema / Cheng Li -- No man's land : cco-Western in contemporary Chinese cinema / Kun Qian

Chinese Film Festivals

Chinese Film Festivals
Author: Chris Berry
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1137550163

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This book is the first anthology of research devoted to the booming world of Chinese film festivals, covering both mainstream and independent films. It also explores festivals in the Chinese-speaking world and festivals of Chinese films in the rest of the world. The book asks how Chinese film festivals function as sites of translation, translating Chinese culture to the world and world culture to Chinese-speaking audiences, and also how the international film festival model is being transformed as it is translated into the Chinese-speaking world.

Wên-Chien Tzu-Erh Chi

Wên-Chien Tzu-Erh Chi
Author: Thomas Francis Wade
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2017-11-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780331840063

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Excerpt from Wen-Chien Tzu-Erh Chi: A Series of Papers Selected as Specimens of Documentary Chinese Designed to Assist Students of the Language as Written by the Officials of China Part VII. Memorials taken from the Printed Correspondence of 'han Wen-chi, an official of the reigns Chia Ch'ing and Tao Kuang, 1797 - 4836. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.