Author Archive for: ‘Bret Sutcliffe’

A Spring River Flows East:”Progressive” ideology and gender representation

Uploaded 18 December 1998 The left-wing films of the period after World War 2 in China are collectively referred to as “progressive” (jinbu)in People’s Republic of China (PRC) film discourse. As such, these films represent both the culmination of the May Fourth left-wing film movement (referring to the cultural and social reform movement launched in China in the wake of …

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