about the "standard Chinese film historiography" in China

Dear all,

I found out about something very interesting regarding my introduction on the "standard Chinese film historiography"by Chinese scholars: A Historical Development of Chinese Cinema/The History of the Development of Chinese Cinema by Cheng Jihua; first published in 1963 (under the pre-Cultural Revolution socialist regime). They have the timeline as such:

The origin and development of Chinese cinema (1896–1931)

Communist leadership over the film cultural movement (1931–7)

the progressive people’s cinema (1937–49)

My aim was to introduce an ideologically-laden history writing for Chinese film history--so you could tell on your own how the (film) history is always constructed and therefore alway keep critical.

We are NOT adopting its periodization: I did not say that I was agreeing with the "causes" for the periodization as such, and the aim was to show you why they made such divisions---by accentuating the CCP's leading role, and it is quite problematic; it would come to contrast with the KMT's film history writing as well. But this book series indeed provide some valuable materials to understand Chinese film history--that is what I mean by saying "we should not simply trash it", despite its ideological twist.

Hope that I have made myself clear, and the misunderstanding is clarified...



cheers
Ran