HOLLYWOOD AND THE CHINESE OTHER
Date: 11/18/2020
Time: 3:00 pm EST
Presenter: Dr. Tan Ye
University of South Carolina
In the post-colonial era, Hollywood films have often been treated by scholars on both sides of the Pacific as a form of cultural invasion; and the Chinese "Other," the reluctant victim of this invasion. My discursive review of the interaction between Hollywood and China is intended not to negate the invasion-and-resistance theory in general but to refute the generalization of the "Otherness" in the Chinese context. In China, there has never been a uniform opinion of Hollywood, because there has never been a single, faceless entity of the Chinese Other. In China, authorities' opinions, art elites' opinions, filmmakers' opinions, cineastes' opinions, and masses' opinions have always differed, sometimes polarized, from one another. Two perspectives, to treat Hollywood as a political entity and to treat it as a provider of entertainment, have been the major demarcation of the differences.
Scholarships and the Power of People to People Exchange for Impacting your Future Career
Date: 10/21/2020
Time: 8:30 pm EST
Presenter: Xinyu Yang, Levi Johnson
Chinese Embassy DC, St. Cloud State University