Gao Yang. / Thesis submitted in: June 2005. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-133). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / GENDER AND NATIONALISM IN CHINESE FILMS BETWEEN 1949 AND 1989 --- p.I / 摘要 --- p.III / ABBREVIATIONS --- p.VIII / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Literature Review --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- "Nation, State and Nationalism" --- p.2 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- Gender and Nation in Chinese Cinematic Narration --- p.6 / Chapter 1.2 --- Methodology --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Typology --- p.10 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Film Analysis as Method --- p.11 / Chapter 1.2.3 --- Case Selection --- p.16 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- SOCIAL BACKGROUND OF CHINA: 1949-1989 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- Background of the First Period:1949-1978 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- "New China, New Women" --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- The Cooperative Movement and the Communization Movement:1952- --- p.24 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- The Great Leap Forward and the Suppression of Individualism:1958-1960 --- p.26 / Chapter 2.1.4 --- The Magnification of Class Struggle and the Cultural Revolution --- p.28 / Chapter 2.1.5 --- The Unchanged Philosophy behind the Changing Policies: the Strategic Opening Up of Public Domain for Women --- p.30 / Chapter 2.2 --- Economic and Political Landscape after the Cultural Revolution: 1979-1989 --- p.31 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Economic Reform and the Concomitant Social Problems --- p.31 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Political Liberalization and the Backlashes --- p.32 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- "The ""Cultural Fever"" and the ""Fifth Generation"" Filmmakers" --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1 --- Collective Frustration: The Social Sentiment after the National Trauma --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.1 --- Traumatic Experiences during the Cultural Revolution --- p.33 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.2 --- The Lost Past --- p.36 / Chapter 2.2.3.1.3 --- The Meaningless Present --- p.36 / Chapter 2.2.3.2 --- The Specter of Westernization --- p.37 / Chapter 2.2.3.2.1 --- "The ""Anti-Wholesale Westernization"" Campaign" --- p.37 / Chapter 2.2.3.2.2 --- "New Social Crisis and the Nationalism behind ""Anti- Wholesale Westernization""" --- p.38 / Chapter 2.2.3.3 --- The Fifth Generation in the Cultural Fever and the Root-Searching Movement --- p.40 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Shifts of Women's Issues in the Reform Era --- p.44 / Chapter 2.2.4.1 --- Women and Labor under the Economic Reform --- p.44 / Chapter 2.2.4.2 --- Femininity in Flux --- p.45 / Chapter 2.2.4.3 --- The Representation of Women --- p.46 / Chapter 2.2.4.3.1 --- Women in the Public Space ´ؤ Discourse and Visuality --- p.46 / Chapter 2.2.4.3.2 --- Women and the Nation in Representation --- p.47 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- CLASSIC REVOLUTIONARY FILMS --- p.49 / Chapter 3.1 --- "Ghost of the Old Society, Master of the New State, a Case Study of The White- Haired Girl" --- p.50 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Gender Conflicts in the Form of Class Confrontations --- p.51 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- The Fading Female Sexuality in the Evolving Adaptations of the Story --- p.52 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Male Desire and Male Sexuality --- p.53 / Chapter 3.1.4 --- The Reason behind the Desexualization of both Sexes --- p.54 / Chapter 3.1.5 --- State Feminism: Where Will Women's Liberation Led to? --- p.55 / Chapter 3.2 --- Gender Dynamics and Socialist Discourse in Xie Jin's The Red Detachment of Women --- p.56 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- "Sexuality, Body and the Inscription of Class Struggle" --- p.57 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- The Myth of Class and Class Struggle in the Construction of Nationalism --- p.58 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Constructing Class and Nation in Collective Memories --- p.61 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- "The Interpellation of Individuals by “Ideological State Apparatus""" --- p.62 / Chapter 3.3 --- A Comparison between The White-Haired Girl and The Red Detachment of Women --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- The Representation of the Daughterhood --- p.64 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- The Representation of the Wifehood --- p.65 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- The Representation of the Motherhood --- p.66 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Understanding the Differences between the Two Films --- p.67 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- THE FIFTH GENERATION'S FILMS --- p.71 / Chapter 4.1 --- Case Study of Yellow Earth --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- "Reading the Reviews, Reading the Film" --- p.72 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- "Class, Gender and Nation in Yellow Earth" --- p.74 / Chapter 4.1.2.1 --- Class and Gender in the Characterization --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1 --- The Invisible and the Visible: Departing from the Socialist Rhetoric of Class Struggle --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.1 --- No Villain --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.2 --- No Hero --- p.77 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.3 --- The Party's Folksong-Collection and the Peasants' Taciturnity --- p.78 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.1.4 --- The Estrangement between the Party and the Peasantry --- p.80 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2 --- Gender Images in a Gendered Narration --- p.81 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.1 --- The Gender Separation --- p.82 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.2 --- The Impossible Romance --- p.83 / Chapter 4.1.2.1.2.3 --- The Refusal and the Death --- p.85 / Chapter 4.1.2.2 --- The Significant Setting in a National Allegory --- p.86 / Chapter 4.1.2.2.1 --- The Natural Landscape --- p.86 / Chapter 4.1.2.2.2 --- The Rituals --- p.87 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Debates and Awards --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.3.1 --- Debates --- p.89 / Chapter 4.1.3.2 --- Awards --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2 --- Case Study of Red Sorghum --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- An Egalitarian Myth of National Heroes --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1.1 --- The Villains --- p.93 / Chapter 4.2.1.2 --- The Heroes --- p.94 / Chapter 4.2.1.3 --- The Ideology of the Body --- p.96 / Chapter 4.2.1.4 --- Carnivals ´ؤ Festive Rituals that Connect the Personal with the National --- p.98 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Rebuilding Desirable Masculinity through Female Sexuality --- p.100 / Chapter 4.2.3 --- Red Sorghum ´ؤ Searching Root in a National Allegory --- p.106 / Chapter 4.2.4 --- Debates and Awards --- p.108 / Chapter 4.3 --- Comparing Yellow Earth and Red Sorghum --- p.110 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- CONCLUSION --- p.114 / Chapter 5.1 --- Before the Cultural Revolution --- p.114 / Chapter 5.2 --- The Cultural Revolution --- p.116 / Chapter 5.3 --- After the Cultural Revolution --- p.117 / Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.120
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_325531 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Contributors | Gao, Yang., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Sociology. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English, Chinese |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, viii, 133 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Coverage | China, 20th century |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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