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<h3 style="margin-top:0;"><a style="font-weight: 500; font-size: 21px;line-height: 30px; margin-top:25px; margin-bottom: 10px;" href="http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2016/04/21/re-collecting-china/" target="_blank">Re-Collecting China</a></h3>
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<p class="p1">Hi everyone,</p>
<p class="p1">I'm happy to announce that my new film "Re-Collecting China" (7 min.) has been posted on "The Diplomat" website: <span class="s1"><a href="http://bit.ly/1QoDqrg">http://bit.ly/1QoDqrg</a></span></p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oZhT5xmrF-M" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p>
<p class="p5">The blurb:</p>
<p class="p5">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.</p>
<p class="p5">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.</p>
<p class="p6">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.</p>
<p class="p7">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.</p>
<p class="p7">Cheers!</p>
<p>William A. Callahan<br />
London School of Economics</p>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on April 21, 2016 </div>
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