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The Pain of Our Society: On Contemporary Chinese New Documentary Movement
The Center for Chinese Studies presents a Brown-bag lunch lecture by Professor Xinyu Lu on the New Documentary Movement in China.
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The New Documentary Movement has emerged as an important medium by which to examine some of the social, political, and historical disjunctions in contemporary China. In fact, the New Documentary Movement can be seen as integral parts of those social developments and also as part of a historical movement, which use their own style to maintain a dialogue with society. This dialogue includes investigation, interpretation and intervention. The significance of the New Documentary Film Movement lies in the activist engagement of the filmmakers with the emotional and living conditions of Chinese people in all walks of life in contemporary China.
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