TY - CHAP
T1 - Forming the movie field : film literati in Republican China
AU - YEH, Emilie Yueh-yu
AU - TAM, Enoch Yee lok
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Chinese film historiography of Maoist China, by design, writes off motion pictures, filmmakers, publications, and organizations that were not viewed as offering good support to the founding of the People’s Republic. Likewise, the account told by the other side, that of the Republic of China, also excluded instances and figures that failed to support the Kuomintang (KMT), the Nationalist Party. Political historiography is hence limiting because of its need to follow a linear, teleological narrative that precludes ambiguity, contradictions, and betrayals. These politicized linear, teleological principles have dictated the writing of Chinese film history and, to some extent, Chinese diaspora film historiography. As a result, the past of Chinese-language, or Sinophone cinema, is fraught with glaring omissions, deliberate exclusions, and discrimination.
AB - Chinese film historiography of Maoist China, by design, writes off motion pictures, filmmakers, publications, and organizations that were not viewed as offering good support to the founding of the People’s Republic. Likewise, the account told by the other side, that of the Republic of China, also excluded instances and figures that failed to support the Kuomintang (KMT), the Nationalist Party. Political historiography is hence limiting because of its need to follow a linear, teleological narrative that precludes ambiguity, contradictions, and betrayals. These politicized linear, teleological principles have dictated the writing of Chinese film history and, to some extent, Chinese diaspora film historiography. As a result, the past of Chinese-language, or Sinophone cinema, is fraught with glaring omissions, deliberate exclusions, and discrimination.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058757461&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2307/j.ctt22727c7.14
DO - 10.2307/j.ctt22727c7.14
M3 - Book Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85058757461
SN - 9780472053728
SN - 9780472073726
SP - 244
EP - 276
BT - Early film culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Republican China : kaleidoscopic histories
A2 - YEH, Emilie Yueh-yu
PB - University of Michigan Press
CY - Ann Arbor
ER -