Speaker: Kwai-Cheung Lo, Professor and Department Chair of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University
Moderator: Jean Ma, Mr. and Mrs. Hung Hing-Ying Professor in the Arts, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Friday, March 28, 2025
Time: 4:30 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building examines how cinematic productions about non-Han ethnic minorities are related to China’s nation-state building project from the early Republican era of the 1920s to the early twenty-first century. The representations of ethnic minorities, created by both Han and non-Han filmmakers, are grasped as part of an ecosystem in which the cultures, values, and life practices of non-Han ethnic minorities are closely entwined with environmental issues and politics. These representations became a site in which state authorities, Han and non-Han communities, and foreign agencies compete and interact under the context of building and imagining the Chinese nation-state.
Kwai-Cheung Lo is Professor and Department Chair of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. His latest publications include Ethnic Minority Cinema in China’s Nation-State Building (University of Michigan Press, 2025) and the edited volume Entangled Waterscapes in Asia (Brill, 2025).
For updates on future events hosted by the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures, please visit https://csgchku.wordpress.com/
Follow us on:
– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/csgc.hku
– Instagram: @csgc.hku
