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).
