Ethnic Minority Cinema in China′s Nation–State Building Lo Paperback

Ethnic Minority Cinema in Chinas Nation-State BuildingAuthor(s): Kwai-Cheung Lo\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Michigan Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Michigan Press\nISBN-13: 9780472057276, 978-0472057276\nSynopsis\nEthnic Minority Cinema in Chinas Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and Chinas 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 publics conception of what an ideal multiethnic nation should be like as well as what it means to be Chinese under political unification. \n\n Lo understands these representations of ethnic minorities as part of a larger ecosystem and the cultures, values, a.