Huang’s Article Compares Three Great Wall Films

Dr. Su-ching Huang’s article, “Rewriting History, Narrating Nation: The Great Wall in Sino-US Co-productions in the New Millennium,” has been published in the newest issue of The Journal of Chinese Cinemas. This paper compares the representations of the Great Wall of China in three Sino-US co-produced films, Shadow Magic (西洋鏡, Ann Hu胡安, 2000), Dragon Blade (天降雄師, Daniel Lee李仁港, 2015), and The Great Wall (長城, Zhang Yimou張藝謀, 2016). Instead of seeing the Great Wall as a structure that demarcates clear boundaries, Dr. Huang reads its film representations as symptoms of anxieties over the impossibilities of maintaining well-defined borderlines.

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