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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240308T113000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/un-bounding-the-great-wall-sin
 o-japanese-documentary-media-connections-in-the-long-1980s/
SUMMARY:Un/bounding the Great Wall–Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connec
 tions in the Long 1980s
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and t
 he Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies\n\nSpanning the late 1970s and
  early 1990s\, a series of coproduced documentaries featuring Japanese ent
 ities in consistent partnership with China Central Television (CCTV)\, hav
 e emerged. Emblematic of the Sino-Japanese “techno-friendship\,” these
  projects launched spectacular trans-China voyages undertaken by transnati
 onal film and television teams along the routes and territories across the
  Silk Road\, the Yangtze River\, and the Yellow River. They arguably const
 itute an epistemological-technological nexus\, enabling CCTV crews to expl
 ore “what could be documentary(-making)” through/out the location shoo
 ting\, and simultaneously allowing Japanese teams to gain privileged acces
 s to locations and infrastructural networks\, thereby constructing their m
 ultilayered Sino-fantasy\, underpinned by a documentary epistephilia towar
 d Chinese histories\, cultural heritages\, and post-Cultural Revolution co
 nditions of the PRC.\n\nThis talk highlights the Great Wall project in thi
 s line-up\, encompassing CCTV’s Wang Changcheng (Odyssey of the Great Wa
 ll) and Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS)’s Banri no chōjō (t
 he Great Wall)\; both aired in 1991. I contemplate this project’s dis/co
 ntinuation of the techno-friendship mode. CCTV and TBS have used their jou
 rneys along the Great Wall territories to work through disparate landscape
 -affective assemblages while negotiating East Asian (post-)Cold War geopol
 itics. While Banri no chōjō’s Sino-fantasy is drastically reterritoria
 lized by its studio-staged reportage on the Tiananmen Incident\, Wang Chan
 gcheng reinvents a self-scrutinizing gaze upon “China” in the aftermat
 h of Tian’anmen\, innovatively realigning the political aesthetics of do
 cumentary (jilupian).
CATEGORIES:Visiting Scholar Talks
LOCATION:Common Room (#136)\, 2 Divinity Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, United S
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