Product Description

"From Tian'anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens, 1989-1997" explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on world screens by examining a range of films, videos, and digital works associated with global Chinese culture. The ways in which the world has imagined China and the images the Chinese have used to depict themselves have changed dramatically since 1989. The media spotlight placed on Beijing during the spring of 1989 created repercussions that continue to affect how China is seen globally, how it sees itself, and how the Chinese outside the People's Republic see themselves.The films and other texts included in this book represent a range of work by media artists working within China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and on transnational co-productions involving those places. The book also features media from other positions within the Chinese diaspora (including Chinese America) and work produced on China by non-Chinese. Highlighting questions of the circulation of images, people, and commodities, the book explores the important interconnections involving questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on global screens. Beginning and ending with Tian'anmen and world image culture, a portrait emerges of momentous change and persistent challenges facing media artists and filmmakers working within "Greater China."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1674597 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
"Marchetti offers a sophisticated analysis of the thoroughgoing transformation of contemporary "Greater China" as mediated by an integrated international cinema system held in a curious interplay between state-controlled and 'free-market' institutions." Darrell Y. Hamamoto, University of California, Davis

From the Publisher
How media depictions of Chinese culture have changed, from the Tian'anmen Square uprising to the British return of Hong Kong to China

From the Back Cover
"Marchetti offers a sophisticated analysis of the thoroughgoing transformation of contemporary "Greater China" as mediated by an integrated international cinema system held in a curious interplay between state-controlled and "free-market" institutions. Particularly noteworthy is the equal weight Marchetti places upon both internal migration within China (at a level unprecedented in human history) and overseas immigration, with particular emphasis on Canada and the U.S." —Darrell Y. Hamamoto, University of California, Davis