Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth
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Abstract In the 2019 Chinese sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth by Frant Guo, audiences are catapulted into a dystopian 2061. movie brings to mind strong Hollywood genre style and history. This comparative logic runs danger of accusing China making belated copy feeding desire assert its Chineseness. Peter van der Veer has shown how pivotal analyses understanding complexity resisting generalizations. Anthropology is well equipped for this task, but as I argue in chapter, so cultural studies analysis. Drawing on Veer’s work tandem with Rey Chow, chapter reads translation that betrays both assumed origin copy.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Global diversities
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2662-2599', '2662-2580']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85580-2_6