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Telling Chinese stories through first-person participatory documentaries
Ist Teil von
International communication of Chinese culture, 2023-03, Vol.10 (1), p.59-72
Ort / Verlag
Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
I have kept a watchful eye on the
Looking China
project hosted by Academy for International Communication of Chinese Culture (AICCC) for a long time. In the earlier time of 2022, the 11th year of the running of the project, I was honored to participate in “A Tour in Beijing”, a part of the project as an instructor, and thereby offered an opportunity again to study the international communication of Chinese stories. The project this year was carried out in two stages. In its first stage, it produced 3 documentaries on Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in early 2022 in memory of the successfully held Games. It also completed another 6 documentaries in July 2022 in its second stage. All these 9 documentaries were produced under the cooperation between 9 young foreign directors from different countries and Chinese volunteer producers. Before that, working as the executive director, I had made
Childhood in China
, a two-part special aired on Discovery Channel in April 2020. It was a globally-broadcast version revised from
The Post-00s
(It’s Chinese name is Linglinghou, which is a documentary project led by Professor Zhang Tongdao, Director of the Documentary Centre of Beijing Normal University (BNU)), an educational documentary series in China. The special offered a 12 year tracking to a dozen of children shortly after they attended an experimental kindergarten in Beijing in 2006. It particularly captured moments of exploration, anxiety, and joy as they experienced a contrasting education that shaped their distinctive personalities. In the co-producing period with Discovery Channel, I came to realize the very part of transcultural communication and was motivated to act as a guide to the
Looking China
project. In view of this, the article first analyzes the documentaries in “
Looking China
: A Tour in Beijing” in 2022 and introduce my co-production experience based on
Childhood in China
. With a review of typical documentaries at home and abroad, it concludes with a discussion on possible solutions to shoot a documentary applicable for better international communication.