Event

CEAS Humanities Colloquium

BAN WANG

William Hass Professor of Chinese Studies, Stanford University

Love and Passion in Chinese Film

This talk will discuss romantic love and politics Chinese films from the 1950s to 1990s. It will address the uplifting of sexuality into ardent political passion in the psychological narrative of sublimation, the intertwining of aesthetic experience with political mobilization, and links and contradictions between the individual’s self-realization and nationalism.