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Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018) (2023)
Thesis
Wan, F. Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis aims to investigate how the internet has permeated manifestations of young urban women’s sociality and creativity in mainland China over the past two decades, by exploring the “Strong Women Narrative”, one of the most popular and represent... Read More about Power and Ambiguity: Strong Women on Jinjiang Literature City (2003-2018).

Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema (2022)
Thesis
Yeung, S. Y. Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This project offers the framework of “semiotics of allegory” as an alternative to Fredric Jameson’s national allegory for studying non-Western cultural products by emphasising their plural meanings of signs and the importance of situating their readi... Read More about Semiotics of Allegory: Queerness in Contemporary Taiwan and Hong Kong Novel and Cinema.

A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature (2022)
Thesis
Gamberini, F. A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Common critiques surrounding the balinghou cultural phenomenon often qualify their literary work as bestsellers lacking any appreciable literary or social value. The incredible commercial success of their fiction combined with the idol-like personali... Read More about A study of 80-hou writers: Youth narrative, multimodality, and subjectivity in 21st-century Chinese youth literature.

The Captive Audience and Albanian Films in Mao’s China (2020)
Journal Article
Lu, X. (2021). The Captive Audience and Albanian Films in Mao’s China. Studies in Eastern European Cinema, 12(3), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350X.2020.1822587

The ironclad alliance between the People’s Republic of China and Albania during the 1960s is often taken as the unquestioned starting point of transnational film exchanges between the two fraternal socialist states. This article delineates the presen... Read More about The Captive Audience and Albanian Films in Mao’s China.

In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China (2020)
Book Chapter
Lu, X. (2020). In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China. In A. Skrodzka, X. Lu, & K. Marciniak (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (341-363). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.13

The red martyr holds a special place in the collective memory of communist nations. In the Chinese pantheon of red martyrs, Norman Bethune, a renowned Canadian doctor who died during his selfless support of China’s anti-imperialist war against Japan,... Read More about In the Name of Internationalism: The Cinematic Memorialization of Norman Bethune in Socialist China.

Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966) (2020)
Book
Lu, X. (2020). Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423527

What role did cinema play in the Chinese Communist Party’s political project of shaping ideal socialist citizens in the early People’s Republic? In Moulding the Socialist Subject, Xiaoning Lu deploys case studies from popular film genres, movie star... Read More about Moulding the Socialist Subject: Cinema and Chinese Modernity (1949-1966).

Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and xiangsheng dianying in mid-1950s’ China (2019)
Book Chapter
Lu, X. (2019). Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and xiangsheng dianying in mid-1950s’ China. In P. Zhu, Z. Wang, & J. McGrath (Eds.), Maoist Laughter (73-88). University of Hong Kong Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs1g9hm.9

Comedy film in the early Mao era is a site of negotiation and contestation. The ephemeral presence of satirical comedies in the Hundred Flowers period (1956–1957) and the long–awaited reemergence of the genre, albeit in the form of eulogistic comedie... Read More about Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and xiangsheng dianying in mid-1950s’ China.

Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa (2019)
Book Chapter
Dovey, L. (2020). Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa. In X. Lu (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.15

This article explores the relationships between African filmmakers and communism during the Cold War period, with a particular focus on those African filmmakers who were trained in the Soviet Union, such as Sarah Maldoror, Ousmane Sembene, and Abderr... Read More about Listening Between the Images: African Filmmakers’ Take on the Soviet Union, Soviet Filmmakers’ Take on Africa.

The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Đặng Nhật Minh’s New Wave Cinema (2019)
Book Chapter
Healy, D. (2020). The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Đặng Nhật Minh’s New Wave Cinema. In A. Skrodzka, X. Lu, & K. Marciniak (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.013.23

This article looks at the career and work of a prominent Vietnamese film director, Đặng Nhật Minh. By taking a closer look at his film When the Tenth Month Comes, this article challenges the Cold War perception of communist art as a mere servant to... Read More about The Lyrical Subversions of Socialist Realism in Đặng Nhật Minh’s New Wave Cinema.

The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures (2019)
Book
Skrodzka, A., Lu, X., & Marciniak, K. (Eds.). (2020). The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190885533.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures critically examines and historically reconstructs the visual practices that have accompanied social transformations initiated by communist ideals in various parts of the world in the twentieth century.... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Communist Visual Cultures.

Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976 (2018)
Thesis
Yang, Y. Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD thesis examines woodblock book publishing during the radical years of Mao’s life time, when thread-bound books were criticised as representing the symbol of the old literati culture by the CCP government. This very political authority parado... Read More about Archaism as Cultural Distinction: Woodblock book publishing during the Mao Era 1949-1976.

The Might of the People: Counter-Espionage Films and Participatory Surveillance in the Early PRC (2017)
Book Chapter
Lu, X. (2017). The Might of the People: Counter-Espionage Films and Participatory Surveillance in the Early PRC. In K. Fang (Ed.), Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes (13-32). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315647708

The increasing penetration of surveillance technology in everyday life as well as the widespread concern for national security in the face of global terrorism in the past decade has not only boosted surveillance studies in general but also fostered c... Read More about The Might of the People: Counter-Espionage Films and Participatory Surveillance in the Early PRC.