Dr Qiao Li Q.Li@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context
Li, Qiao
Authors
Contributors
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel
Editor
Bernard Wilson
Editor
Abstract
Zhang Yimou, one of the most successful of Chinese auteur directors, has been criticized for his Orientalist tendencies, specifically for the exotic atmosphere that turns his films into Oriental spectacles for Western consumption. Yet criticizing Zhang for his supposedly self-Orientalist tendencies, I would suggest, is inappropriate in the context of the Fifth Generation films of the 1980s and 1990s. I argue that, since for the Chinese themselves this period had entailed a re-visioning of their relationship with culture, nature, and identity, it becomes imperative to replace the stereotyped, Orientalist binaries of East/West and self/other with greater insight into the cultural positioning of the Fifth Generation text itself and its production.
Citation
Li, Q. (2021). Rethinking rural China: Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum and the roots-searching movement in a post-cultural revolution context. In S. P. Gabriel, & B. Wilson (Eds.), . London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105367
Acceptance Date | Sep 30, 2020 |
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Online Publication Date | May 18, 2021 |
Publication Date | Jun 18, 2021 |
Deposit Date | Mar 21, 2022 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Chapter Number | 10 |
ISBN | 9781003105367 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003105367 |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2854878 |
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