In Search of an Alternative Feminist Cinema: Gender, Crisis, and the Cultural Discourse of Nation Building in Chinese Independent Films

Chinese feminist cinema in the postsocialist era is shaped by the grand narrative of nation building that glamorizes urban professional career women and their contributions to economic marketization and globalization. Such cinematic overemphasis on urban women proves inadequate as it creates a distu...

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Main Author: Jinhua Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-04-01
Series:The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts
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Online Access:http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/152