International Cinema's Shifting Image of China: From the Barbarian to the Schemer, and to the Civilized Great Power.

This paper examines how China has been portrayed in international cinema throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using the Internet Movie Database, the authors extract the plot synopses of 4,927 China-related films. The authors apply the word embedding technology and Latent Dirichlet Al...

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Publicado en:Journal of Contemporary China Vol. 32; no. 140; pp. 319 - 338
Autores principales: Ma, Wen, Sun, Wen, Chen, Zhuo, Chen, Yunsong
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Mar2023
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          Sun, Wen
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          Chen, Yunsong
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        Socioeconomic factors
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        Chinese civilization
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        China in motion pictures
        Gross domestic product
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        Trend analysis
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