Documentary Images Of Chinese Villages

It seems quite obvious that the theme of the relationship between urban and rural areas is, implicitly or explicitly as it is, embedded in the main course of Chinese contemporary documentary. This research, ipso facto, focuses on how the relationship of rural area and its historical context is presented in the documentary rhetoric since the 1980’s.Chapter 1, also known as the Introduction part, explains the objective of this research, thus, it also contains an overview of the research object and the related background. Due to the reason that key clues will be the relationship between urban and rural areas of China since the 1980 s throughout the context, and since the 1980 s, country image in Chinese documentary has been analyzed. So, the relationship between urban and rural areas will be the starting point of this paper research on the analyzation of rural image. Thus, in this section, this article summarizes important documentaries whose topics are quite related to my research since the 1980’s and provides relevant literature reviews.Chapter 2 mainly discusses the process of how rural image changes in some important television documentary in the 1980’s and the following change of how the new documentary movement has turned to the bottom of the social class, the rural area in the 1990’s. The 1980’s was a era from which large documentaries of patriotism was springing up. So many influential documentaries could be named, such as The Yangtze river, The cana, political one Heshang, and Looking at the Great Wall, Tiananmen square, two documentaries that put together the era of feature films in the 1980 s and new documentary movement in the 1990’s. Therefore, this chapter will mainly stretch out through these contexts in the 1980’s and tries to combine ideology mobilization of patriotism and the background of the complicated ideological trend of "new enlightenment" during this period. Then, it illustrates the "configuration" in rural China in the 1980 s television documentary and emphatically resolves the inherent continuity among several texts mentioned above.Chapter 3 mainly demonstrates, after the new documentary movement in 1990’s has turned its wheel to the non-mainstream crowd, how the new documentary presents the "configuration" in the country, and its relationship between the urbanization, market-oriented reforms in the 1990’s.89 event ended the 1980’s, but the modernization is continually extending "after moving away from the event". In the process of urbanization and modernization, the whole society has changed from a society with rural areas as its main body into a society with the city as its main body. And the loosen dual structure between urban-rural also led to the emergence of "the tide of migrant workers". The social reality of the 1990 s became the attention after the turnning of the new documentary movement. This chapter concludes documentary images of the countryside during this period into three themes:suffering, women and ethnic groups. These themes constitutes with the change in the rural China in 1990’s, in such as "in Beijing’s home", "Yin and Yang", "back to the phoenix bridge", "established, we established", "the last mountain," and other films carrying out in different extent, and these very documentaries are also mainly analyzed in the third chapter.Chapter 4 is mainly about the country image under "great transformation". After radical market-oriented reform, in the late 90 s, a "great transformation", noted by Polanyi, has been created. And under this historical conditions, rural life not only stands for the "bottom" and also has emerged as the image of the "nameless". This chapter tries to analyze the Chinese independent documentaries through the practice of Chinese country image from several dimensions, such as struggle from the "bottom", "bottom" politics and ethics, and minority ethnic assimilation, under the shadows of modernity since the late 1990’sChapter 5, also as the conclusion part of this article, tries to summarize and reflect on the documentary "configuration" in rural China of the three periods mentioned above and points out the shortage of this research and also what should be perfected and the direction of further research of the following period.