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Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international politics can be a few steps from serious trouble. But on the other hand, translation is a way of entering new and exciting worlds, and making link

Die Verfasserin gibt einen Überblick über die Entwicklung von Filmkunst und Kino in der VR China in den späten achtziger und frühen neunziger Jahren. Sie behandelt zunächst die zu Beginn der neunziger Jahre entsprechend den ideologischen Vorgaben der Kommunistischen Partei gedrehten Filme und geht in diesem Zusammenhang vor allem auf Porträtfilme revolutionärer Führer ein. Es schließt sich ein Überblick über die finanzielle Situation der chinesischen Filmwirtschaft, Zuschauerzuspruch, Zustand der Kinos und ausländische Investitionen an. Sex und Gewalt werden als zentrale Themen des nicht parteigebundenen zeitgenössischen chinesischen Kinos herausgearbeitet. Die fünfte und sechste Generation chinesischer Regisseure werden vorgestellt. Abschließend behandelt die Verfasserin die Reaktion auf das chinesische Kino im westlichen Ausland. (BIOst-Wpt)

A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind—that's the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017. 'Moderate' prosperity may seem like a modest goal for a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the 'China Story' is a complex one. The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity surveys the important events, pronouncements, and personalitites that defined 2017. It also presents a range of perspectives, from the global to the individual, the official to the unofficial, from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Together, the stories present a richly textured portrait of a nation that in just forty years has lifted itself from universal poverty to (unequally distributed) wealth, changing itself and the world in the process.

A 'moderately prosperous society' with no Chinese individual left behind - that's the vision for China set out by Chinese President Xi Jinping in a number of important speeches in 2017. 'Moderate' prosperity may seem like a modest goal for a country with more billionaires (609 at last count) than the US. But the 'China Story' is a complex one. The China Story Yearbook 2017: Prosperity surveys the important events, pronouncements, and personalitites that defined 2017. It also presents a range of perspectives, from the global to the individual, the official to the unofficial, from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Together, the stories present a richly textured portrait of a nation that in just forty years has lifted itself from universal poverty to (unequally distributed) wealth, changing itself and the world in the process.

In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the many facets of crisis—the theme of last year's China Story Yearbook—fractured into pictures of contradiction throughout Chinese society and the Chinese sphere of influence. Contradiction: the ancient Chinese word for the concept holds within it the image of an unstoppable spear meeting an impenetrable shield. It describes a wide range of phenomena that English might express with words like conflict, clash, paradox, incongruity, disagreement, rebuttal, opposition, and negation. This year's Yearbook presents stories of action and reaction, of motion and resistance. The theme of contradiction plays out in different ways across the different realms of society, culture, environment, labour, politics, and international relations. Great powers do not necessarily succeed in dominating smaller ones. The seemingly irresistible forces of authoritarianism, patriarchy, and technological control come up against energised and surprisingly resilient means of resistance or cooptation. Efforts by various authorities to establish monolithic narrative control over the past and present meet a powerful insistence on telling the story from an opposite angle. The China Story Yearbook: Contradiction offers an accessible take on this complex and contradictory moment in the history of China and of the world.

Title Page -- Copyright and Imprint Information -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Year of Crisis -- Acknowledgements -- The Cover Image -- Forum · Standing on a Precipice -- The Etymology of the Character of Wei 危 -- Chapter 1 -- The Construction of Political Superiority -- Forum · Masks and Wolves -- Mask Diplomacy: Shifting the COVID-19 Narrative? -- The Rise and Fall of the Wolf Warriors -- Chapter 2 -- Beating the Virus in the Chinese Countryside -- Forum · Down and Out in Hong Kong -- Hong Kong's National Security Law -- Waste and the Elderly Working Poor in Hong Kong -- Chapter 3 -- Women's Bodies, Intimate Politics, and Feminist Consciousness Amid COVID-19 -- Forum · Cultural Communication -- The Language of Trust -- Chapter 4 -- The Chinese Economy: Crisis, Control, Recovery, Refocus -- Forum · Coping Through Laughter and Prayer -- Humour in Crisis -- The Power of Compassion: The Buddhist Approach to COVID-19 -- Chapter 5 -- China's Post-COVID-19 Stimulus: Dark Clouds, Green Lining -- Forum · Broken River Shattered Mountain -- The Three Gorges Dam: A Deluge of Doubts -- Chapter 6 -- The Future Repeats Itself: COVID-19 and Its Historical Comorbidities -- Forum · Plan for Difficulty -- The Dao of Crisis -- Chapter 7 -- US-China Relations: A Lingering Crisis -- Forum · Difficult Choices -- Taiwan's Search for a Grand Strategy -- Malaysia: Taking No Side but Its Own -- Chapter 8 -- The Sino-Indian Border Crisis: Chinese Perceptions of Indian Nationalism -- Forum · Of Mao and Money -- Chinese Loans to Africa: Trap or Treasure? -- Off the Prachanda Path: Nepali Communists' Crisis of Legitimacy -- Chapter 9 -- Economic Power and Vulnerability in Sino-Australian Relations -- Forum · Playing the Game? -- China and the Multilateral Trading System: Misunderstandings, Criticisms, and Options -- Chapter 10.

Title Page -- Copyright and Imprint Information -- Introduction -- Dream On -- Acknowledgements -- The Cover Image -- Forum · Illusions and Transformations: The Many Meanings of Meng 夢 -- From the Land of Illusion to the Paradise of Truth -- Zhuangzi and His Butterfly Dream: The Etymology of Meng 夢 -- Chapter 1 -- A Dream of Perpetual Rule -- Forum · Enforcing the Dream -- Xi Jinping's War on 'Black and Evil' -- The Changing 'Dream' in the Classroom: Literary Chinese Textbooks in the PRC -- Chapter 2 -- Hong Kong's Reckoning -- Forum · Under Observation -- Legalism and the Social Credit System -- 'Evil Cults' and Holy Writ -- Chapter 3 -- Meridians of Influence in a Nervous World -- Forum · Projecting the Dream -- Dreams in Space -- Antarctic Ambitions: Cold Power -- Chapter 4 -- Conscious Decoupling: The Technology Security Dilemma -- Forum · Conscious Coupling! -- Queer Dreams -- Chapter 5 -- AI Dreams and Authoritarian Nightmares -- Forum · Life and Death -- Dream Babies -- Recurring Nightmare: The Plague Visits Beijing -- Chapter 6 -- Urbanising Tibet: Aspirations, Illusions, and Nightmares -- Forum · Forgotten Histories -- 'Prairie Mothers' and Shanghai Orphans -- Chapter 7 -- Schemes, Dreams, and Nightmares: China's Paradox(es) of Trust -- Forum · Vigilante Justice -- Taking Justice into their Own Hands: 'Netilantism' in Hong Kong -- Chapter 8 -- Hong Kong and the Tiananmen Playbook -- Forum · Sharing the Dream? -- South Korea and the 'China Effect' -- Taiwanese Dreams: Security, Sovereignity, and the Space to be Seen -- Chapter 9 -- Campus Conundrums: Clashes and Collaborations -- Notes -- Contributors -- Previous China Story Yearbooks.

'More cosmopolitan, more lively, more global' is how the China Daily summed up the year 2016 in China. It was also a year of more control. The Chinese Communist Party laid down strict new rules of conduct for its members, continued to assert its dominance over everything from the Internet to the South China Sea and announced a new Five-Year Plan that Greenpeace called 'quite possibly the most important document in the world in setting the pace of acting on climate change'. The China Story Yearbook 2016: Control surveys the year in China's economy, population planning, law enforcement and reform, environment, Internet, medicine, religion, education, historiography, foreign affairs, and culture, as well as developments in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Intro -- Introduction -- Powering Up -- Acknowledgements -- The Cover Image -- Forum · Powerful Words, Powerful People -- Constantly Strive to Become Stronger -- Mao and Xi: Story of the Man, Story of the People -- 1. Immunity to Temptation - 'Power' in Chinese Language -- Forum · Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely -- Power Surge: China's New National Supervisory Commission -- 2. Talking (Up) Power -- Forum · Power and Influence -- Power in Chinese Foreign Policy -- China's Korea Diplomacy -- 3. Technology: Rapid Ascent and Global Backlash -- Forum · The Power of Money -- Calling the Tunes in Cambodia -- Buying Power: Alibaba in South-East Asia -- 4. Internment and Indoctrination - Xi's 'New Era' in Xinjiang -- Forum · Directing the Way -- Raising the Flag: Loving Religion, Loving the State -- Rapprochement with the Vatican -- 5. Girl Power -- Forum · Power and the Patriarchy -- The Story of Yanxi Palace -- 6. Australia's China Debate in 2018 -- Forum · Politics with Taiwanese Characteristics -- Disenchantment in Taiwan -- Sharp Power, Youth Power, and the New Politics in Taiwan -- 7. China's Power in Africa: Rhetoric and Reality -- Forum · Who's in Charge Here? -- China's Base in Djibouti: Who's Got the Power? -- Chinese Engagement in Africa: Fragmented Power and Ghanaian Gold -- 8. Towards a 'World Class' Military: Reforming the PLA under Xi Jinping -- Forum · Softly Does It -- Soft Power, Hard Times -- Sinology as Spectacle -- Passing Marx -- 9. The Anthropomorphic City - Power and -- Forum · (Im)mortality -- Power Over Life and Death -- Towards a Healthier Future -- 10. The State Advances, the Private Sector Retreats -- Forum · With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility -- The Power of Giving: China Deepens Involvement in Refugee Affairs -- Protecting Citizens Overseas: The Policy, the Power, and Now the Movie … -- Chronology -- Notes.