EAST 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Theatricality
20 Apr 2019
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During this time china was split up into "mini china"s" - chongqing, nanjing, hong kong, shanghai and. Shanghai has been a place where modernity is experienced in the context of colonialism. It becomes modern because it"s where film was made and it was ground zero on how modernity was negotiated in a colonial context. At this time, the politics of film making was politics in itself. 1937 - the real takeover of shanghai; japan controlled the city from the government in nanjing. Within this time hong kong was under british rule until 1941 when japan took over. It was a safe and neutral place where you could move back and forth and make films on your own. They had a whole other film production not in mandarin but in cantonese, the production of cantonese film was always being suppressed during the 1930"s. Manchuria becomes a place highly prioritized by japan as a model of a multi-ethnic empire that they envisioned.
