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Title	Scars on Screen : How Is Maoist China Depicted on Film?
Author/s	Tim Löfstedt
Department/s	Chinese Studies
Full-text	Available as PDF
Publishing year	2011
Abstract English	After the end of the Cultural Revolution, restrictions on art production in China eased considerably, and alternative accounts of life under Mao emerged, conflicting earlier official accounts of life in Maoist China. Since then, a number of films depicting the so-called decade of turmoil and the years preceding it have been produced. This essay studies and compares two Chinese films: Hibiscus Town (1986) and In the Heat of the Sun (1994). Both films depict life in China during the Cultural Revolution, but differ greatly in how they depict the era.
Subject	Languages and Literatures
Keywords	china, film, chinese film, maoism, cultural revolution, jiang wen, xie jin, hibiscus town, in the heat of the sun, memory, scar literature
Document type	Bachelor Degree
Language	English
Supervisor	Michael Schoenhals