讲者
Prof. Yanjie Wang
Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Prof. Wang’s research focuses on ethnic minorities, ecocriticism, displacement, migration, migrant labor, trauma, women and gender. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Screen, Asian Cinema, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and American Journal of Chinese Studies, among others. Her current research examines ethnic minority filmmaking and the intersection of minority representation and ecocriticism.
活动概览
This talk examines Korean Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu’s Dooman River (2010), focusing on its portrayal of the often-overlooked Korean Chinese minority in China’s northeastern borderlands and their transborder relations with both North and South Korea. Drawing on border and borderland studies as well as the framework of minor transnationalism, I argue that the film offers a richly nuanced borderland perspective. While remaining attentive to the power of the nation-state, Dooman River also moves beyond national frameworks to illuminate the transformative possibilities of minor-to-minor cross-border connection. In doing so, the film reimagines the border not merely as a site of division and control, but as a space where new forms of subjectivity, human relation, and solidarity can emerge.
