Critiquing the Post Isolationist Chinese Youth Film [DCCFF 2017]
As China adjusted to post-isolationism in the 1980s, radical new societal narratives emerged and the role of youth during this metamorphosis became prominent in mainstream...
Summer Palace (China, 2006)
A heady combination of political discontent, tortured relationships and shattered idealism, Lou Ye’s fiercely compelling Summer Palace is one of the landmark films of China’s...
So Close to Paradise (China, 1998)
My current research project as Lecturer in Film Studies at Nanjing University is a study of the cinema of Lou Ye, the Sixth Generation Chinese...