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Re-Collecting China
Hi everyone,
I'm happy to announce that my new film "Re-Collecting China" (7 min.) has been posted on "The Diplomat" website: http://bit.ly/1QoDqrg
The blurb:
When I lived in China in 1985-86, I became obsessed with pencil sharpeners. They came in all shapes: televisions, telephones, and cars; tigers, elephants, and giraffes; pistols, Maotai bottles, and brandy bottles; violins, pianos, and Laughing Buddhas. In one year, I collected over 200 different pencil sharpeners.
The Chinese party-state seems to encourage such obsessions. Its political campaigns from the 1950s to the 1980s produced not only a plethora of slogans, but also a wide range of collectable communist consumer items: Mao badges, propaganda posters, postage stamps, and mugs inscribed with political messages.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the start of China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), this short documentary film explores the everyday experience of revolution and reform by examining these cultural artifacts, and the people who collected them.
I hope the film is useful for teaching as well discussing Chinese culture and politics, it raises issues of ideology, self/other relations and research ethics.
Cheers!
William A. Callahan
London School of Economics
by denton.2 at osu.edu on April 21, 2016
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