Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Hong Kong Films' Views of the People's Republic of China: From "Comrades, Almost a Love Story" to "Life without Principle"
The Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley presents a discussion of how Hong Kong films reflect the changes in opinion of mainland China
When:
April 9, 2014 12:15pm to 1:30pm
Where
Speaker: Mary Erbaugh, Center for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Oregon
Sponsor: Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Hong Kong film, like Hong Kong identity, constantly recasts its views of China. Martial arts films asserted a distinctively Chinese toughness against a hostile world. As reunification drew near, Hong Kong viewed mainlanders with humor, uneasiness and condescension. The peasant immigrants in ‘Comrades, almost a love story’ (1996) could not even use an ATM. In ‘Durian, durian’ (2000) a prostitute from icy Northeast China flees to Kowloon, where she mails the stinky tropical fruit back home (2000). As Hong Kong accommodates the mainland, Chow Yun Fat, the aging Hong Kong star depicter of mob bosses, even plays Confucius in the mainland film (2010). Cross-border financiers and loan sharks become indispensible in ‘The election’ (2005, 2006, 2015) and ‘Life without Principle’ (2011), while the Hong Kong women of ‘Love in the Buff’ (2012) relocate to the mainland for better jobs, gentle romance, and green open space.
Phone Number:
510-643-6321
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