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A paper which considers the importance of film as part of the wider communication structure in China, with specific reference to the cultural function of art in Chinese history and the impact of westernization through modern communication technologies. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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There are a number of reasons why the Chinese film industry is a significant aspect of the communications structure in the country, both in terms of its
importance as a reflection and reification of national ideologies, and with regard to the way that China interacts politically, economically and intellectually with other countries. Of particular interest is the
extent to which Western perceptions of China have been changed through modern Chinese cinema, and the importance of crosscultural fusion brought about by modern communication technology as exemplified in Chinese
film. From the Western perspective, China has traditionally been regarded as having divorced itself, to a considerable extent, from
the path taken by the rest of the global economy. For example, as Said (1980) points out, there has been a strong tendency for the West to perceive the Orient
through Western cultural filters, rather than from a more realistic perspective: a point which Cohen (1984) also stresses. Elements of Oriental culture as seen in the West have been perceived
not so much as a direct transmission of that culture, but rather a version of it which is selected and defined through Western ideals and values.
Even today, if we look at the extent to which Chinese cultural ideology has made its way to the West via art and
film, it is evident that that many of the relevant texts present Chinese traditional cultural values as filtered through the changes brought about by globalization and post-colonialism. However, the Western
view of China as isolationist, resistant to change, and hostile to the West, is not necessarily accurate: something which Waley-Cohen (2000) is at pains to point out, in her efforts
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