Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building

by Kwai-Cheung Lo

Ethnic Minority Cinema in China's Nation-State Building investigates the relationship between cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities and China's 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472077279
• ISBN13: 9780472077274
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 302 Pages