Literati Lenses: Wenren Landscape in Chinese Cinema of the Mao Era (University of Hawaii Press, 2019)
Author Mia Yinxing Liu discusses how ideals of the scholar-gentleman and the aesthetics of landscape painting were deployed in the films of 1950s-1970s China.
key themes
- Landscape, gardens, and environment
- Art and politics
- Cinema
- Media studies and intermedia
- Visual culture studies
East Asian Art History 