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    China’s soft power conundrum, film coproduction, and visions of shared prosperity

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    Authors
    Peng, W.
    Keane, Michael
    Date
    2019
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Peng, W. and Keane, M. 2019. China’s soft power conundrum, film coproduction, and visions of shared prosperity. International Journal of Cultural Policy. 25 (7): pp. 904-916.
    Source Title
    International Journal of Cultural Policy
    DOI
    10.1080/10286632.2019.1634062
    ISSN
    1028-6632
    Faculty
    Faculty of Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    Funding and Sponsorship
    http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP140101643
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80347
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper looks at China’s soft power strategy in relation to the film industry, which since the early 2000s has opened to international co-productions and investment. Despite many coproduction projects being endorsed by government, results have not added significantly to China’s film-making reputation. The paper shows that coproductions have a diplomatic function, which implies a more conventional understanding of soft power. The paper also considers the tension between artistic freedom and censorship that impacts on all coproduction projects in China and which undermines the efficacy of China’s soft power strategy. The paper advances the proposition that coproduction with countries in Eurasia under the cultural template of the Belt and Road Initiative might present new opportunities to blend China’s stories into a narrative of shared prosperity. In doing this, the advance of China’s economic power is supported by cultural policies that evoke a historical past as much as a shared future.

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