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Accepted Paper:

Story-telling inspired by films in China: an anthropological analysis of film reviews featuring feminist narratives  
Lijing Peng (Trinity College Dublin)

Paper short abstract:

This study focuses on how the constructed feminist narratives in literary film reviews reveal the complicated relationships between popular feminist awareness/narratives and state power. It challenges the simplistic framing of overwhelmingly decisive state power and downgrading popular narratives.

Paper long abstract:

Artistic story-telling in literary film reviews have revealed much needed and nuanced understandings about the relationship between popular feminist awareness/narratives and state power in China. The #MeToo movement has gathered considerable steam in China since early 2018, with dozens of prominent political and media personalities publicly accused of sexual assault or sexual misconduct. Chinese Millennials set out to push the limits of the movement and struggle to gain footing in the face of nationalist ideologies, patriarchal culture and censorship. This research looks into how a new nationalist identity is narrated and advocated by Chinese Millennials intellectuals, through the construction of feminist narratives. In a country where state power is tightly mingled with patriarchal tradition, feminist narratives is a national issue. It is not only a self-conscious parameter of civil order and social change, but also the re-conceptualisation of state power by Chinese Millennials.

In this research textual studies are applied on movie reviews on Douban, one of the biggest interest-oriented Chinese online social networks where users are able to disseminate their opinions on a wide range of international films, and to make recommendations to their followers and friends. In this re-search Douban film reviews of international movies released in year 2018 and 2019 are examined, and analyzed with linguistic anthropology methods. I argue that Chinese Millennials intellectuals endeavor to build up and spread a new nationalist identity — one that compromises traditional patriarchal and mainstream nationalist values, yet marches towards a more cosmopolitan self recognition.

Panel P146
When becoming the future lies at the intersection of Anthropology; Speculative Fiction and Storytelling [Future Anthropologies Network]
  Session 1 Thursday 23 July, 2020, -