As environmental crises continue to transform global culture, Ecological and Environmental Turns: (Re)mapping China’s Sociocultural Landscape through Ecocinema by Professor Shuqin Cui, the Bowdoin Professor of Asian Studies and Cinema Studies at Bowdoin College, offers an innovative framework for teaching and studying film, ecology, and environmental humanities. Bridging ecocriticism, cinema…
Congratulations to Professor Wendy Larson on the outstanding review of her book Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture in the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)! The book review notes: “At 420 pages, Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture is a magnum opus. … Although I have…
Congratulations to Professor Christopher Lupke on the excellent review of his book, The Sinophone Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Culture, Style, Voice, and Motion, by Film International, which praises it for being a well-informed book straddling between the disciplines of Chinese Studies and Film Studies and is highly relevant to film…
Cambria Press author Wendy Larson (University of Oregon) spoke about her new book Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture at the Cambria Press reception. This book is in the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series headed by Professor Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) and the Cambria Press Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series…
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s latest film, The Assassin, was released this past weekend. It stars Shu Qi, the Taiwanese actress who is a major star across Greater China. Click here to watch a trailer from The Assassin. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s reputation as one of the most beloved auteur film directors active today is well deserved….
