Janet Yang and Michael Berry on the state of cinema in a time of souring U.S.-China ties
Sinica Podcast
Kaiser Kuo
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week on Sinica, Kaiser continues his California series with a conversation with Janet Yang, one of the legends of the U.S.-China film world, and Michael Berry, a professor at UCLA and a leading expert on Chinese cinema. They discuss how politics and other factors have taken the shine off the initial promise of U.S.-China film collaboration, but how some bright spots remain.
This episode is part of the California series of podcasts, made possible by the Serica Initiative.
6:07: The Golden Horse and Golden Rooster Awards
11:41: A “perfect storm” for Chinese film industry disruptions
23:12: Sentiments of Chinese filmmakers in the current moment
39:29: Censorship, film, and the era of hypersensitivity
Recommendations:
Janet: An animated movie that she created, based on a story about Cháng’é 嫦娥, the Chinese goddess of the Moon. Set to be released in fall 2020.
Michael: The bands Plini and The Aristocrats.
Kaiser: A book by Timothy C. Winegard, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.
This podcast was edited and produced by Kaiser Kuo and Jason MacRonald.
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| 0:34.3 | Initiative, our non-profit program. |
| 0:37.3 | The mission of the Serraka Initiative is to produce independent educational and public awareness programming |
| 0:42.3 | to make the U.S. and global public better informed about China. |
| 0:58.4 | Welcome to the cynical podcast. |
| 1:02.1 | We've been discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina. |
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| 1:28.5 | From the travails of ethnically Chinese researchers in the U.S. in this age of creeping McCarthyism, to China's ongoing extra-legal internment of hundreds of thousands, or by some estimates, over a million Uighurs |
| 1:33.5 | and other Muslims in China's Xinjiang region. We're sure you'll agree it's a feast of business, |
| 1:38.9 | political, and cultural news about a nation that is reshaping the world. I'm Kaiser Guo, and today I am in Los Angeles as I |
| 1:45.1 | continue to work my way up the California coast in this series of cynical podcasts from the |
| 1:50.0 | Golden State. Not too long ago, the blossoming romance between the Chinese and American |
| 1:54.9 | film industries looked like he was headed for a Hollywood ending, but with the precipitous decline |
| 2:00.2 | in Sino-American relations, |
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