Tonglin Lu. Confronting Modernity in the Cinemas of Taiwan and Mainland China

Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 257 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-80677-1.Despite differences in the political, social, and economic systems of Taiwan and mainland China, the process of modernization in both have challenged traditional cultural norms. Tonglin Lu examines how differences in cultural formation between Taiwan and China have influenced reactions to modernity and how cultural identity has taken different forms on both sides of the Taiwan straits. She illustrates how these differences in the experience of modernity are expressed through analysis of paradigmatic films produced in both countries, with a particular emphasis on their formal experiments.On the Cultural and the Ideological Margins.
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