The Last Watch Chief Director:Ma Wanting Length:Eight Episodes Producers:bilibili and Shanxi Cultural Relics Bureau Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Cultural relics are symbols of the wisdom of Chinese ancestors and tra...The Last Watch Chief Director:Ma Wanting Length:Eight Episodes Producers:bilibili and Shanxi Cultural Relics Bureau Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Cultural relics are symbols of the wisdom of Chinese ancestors and traditional Chinese culture.Shanxi,a mountainous province in north China,is now a popular travel destination with a rich cultural heritage.展开更多
If Treasures Could Talk Season IV Chief Director:Xu Huan Length:25 Episodes Producers:China Central Television(CCTV),and National Cultural Heritage Administration Broadcasting Platforms:bilibili,iQIYI,Tecent Video,Mig...If Treasures Could Talk Season IV Chief Director:Xu Huan Length:25 Episodes Producers:China Central Television(CCTV),and National Cultural Heritage Administration Broadcasting Platforms:bilibili,iQIYI,Tecent Video,Migu Video,and Youku The documentary series tells the stories of cultural relics from Song(960-1279)to Qing(1644-1911)dynasties in five-minute episodes.Through presenting the Chinese spirit,aesthetics,and values represented in each relic,it gives viewers a broader understanding of Chinese culture.展开更多
Thirty Thousand Days on Earth Directors:Xu Dong and Liu Jianing Length:10 Episodes Producer:Shandong Radio and TV Station Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Data from the National Health Commission shows that the average ...Thirty Thousand Days on Earth Directors:Xu Dong and Liu Jianing Length:10 Episodes Producer:Shandong Radio and TV Station Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Data from the National Health Commission shows that the average life expectancy in China reached 78.6 years in 2023.展开更多
Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good desig...Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good design?How does a design proceed from inspiration to presentation?The film traces the origin of design in people’s everyday life.Combined with rich animation and creative photography,it presents the designer’s inner world to pique people’s curiosity and make them question the design of objects around them.Through different categories of design,such as folk art,architecture,and public spaces,it provides an understanding of design and its application.展开更多
Ten Thousand Years of Life.Chief Director:Zhou Xiaomeng.Length:12 Episodes.Producers:Hunan TV,Mango TV,and OBM.Broadcasting Platforms:Mango TV,and bilibili.In the backdrop of China’s aging society,this film series fo...Ten Thousand Years of Life.Chief Director:Zhou Xiaomeng.Length:12 Episodes.Producers:Hunan TV,Mango TV,and OBM.Broadcasting Platforms:Mango TV,and bilibili.In the backdrop of China’s aging society,this film series focuses on the community of elderly people in China who have enjoyed longevity.展开更多
This series of films is the first documentary of its kind to present a few of the weirdest foods across China.Throughout human history,the foods that people rely on for survival have gradually become more appetizing,c...This series of films is the first documentary of its kind to present a few of the weirdest foods across China.Throughout human history,the foods that people rely on for survival have gradually become more appetizing,creating various traditions of different flavors which have been preserved and passed down to today.展开更多
This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine(NM)program,called AfterWards.Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department ...This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine(NM)program,called AfterWards.Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine.In early 2019,she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai.She created an AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide based on Western-language sources for workshop participants.She also started to organize with Jiang Yuhong(Peking Union Medical College)a workshop for Chinese colleagues to be held at Johns Hopkins Medicine in October 2019.They invited the author to participate.The idea was hatched then to develop Chinese source materials following the AfterWards structure for an updated Facilitator’s Guide that Dr Small had initially written.A typical one-hour AfterWards session consists of a specific five-part structure:a literary text or artwork,an associated theme,discussion topics,a writing exercise,and shared reflection.While the content of the program always changes from session to session,the basic structure remains the same.This paper summarizes the types of Chinese sources and their related narrative-medicine themes that were originally selected for inclusion in the updated AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide intended for Chinese colleagues.These sources about coping with sick family members,aging,and illness ranged from the textual(classical Chinese poems on aging and diagnostic forms for training students)and visual(premodern Chinese paintings and murals of medical encounters)to the fictive(novels)and performative(contemporary Asian-American film in English and Chinese-language film and documentaries).展开更多
As an important means of cultural transmission,documentaries are a powerful tool to make known the five thousand years of Chinese civilization to people all over the world.The“Wild China”of BBC version,popular among...As an important means of cultural transmission,documentaries are a powerful tool to make known the five thousand years of Chinese civilization to people all over the world.The“Wild China”of BBC version,popular among the great majority of overseas audience,serves as a successful carrier of Chinese culture export.Based on the theory of low-context and high-context culture,this paper uses the method of text analysis and focuses on the study of the texts in the Chinese and English versions of“Wild China”and explores the differences in the texts in terms of content and rhythm.The purpose of this study is to avoid cultural misunderstanding and optimize communication effect.Findings of this study show that against the background of low-context(English)and high-context(Chinese)culture,the English version has a good sense of rhythm,uses rhetoric for vivid description,expresses ideas directly,and provides explanation for phenomena through narrating or telling a story.But Chinese version has plainer descriptions,uses more euphemistic or abstract words,analyzes phenomena in less detail and narrates more formally.So,it is suggested that in translating texts into English,concepts need to be made accessible,logical and direct with more explanation,more rhetoric,more objective evaluation,and less pursuit of artistic abstraction.These communication strategies conforming to low-context culture can help overseas audience accept Chinese culture more easily.展开更多
The culture and history of traditional documentaries carries a set of expectations about types and topics, which are covered by the genre. Documentaries are designed to push social agendas with few thoughts to the aud...The culture and history of traditional documentaries carries a set of expectations about types and topics, which are covered by the genre. Documentaries are designed to push social agendas with few thoughts to the audience reaction. They align more closely with the vision of the creators and producers, often delivering ideological expressions that present cultural, political, and historical content. However, this might be a voice from the past as television, film, and consumer-generated content finds easy voices for expression due to accessibility of technology in the digital era. The role of documentaries as a genre is in the process of changing. The challenges to this type of production are the result of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Production costs for creating documentaries have simultaneously soared and shrunk, depending on the accessibility of equipment, post-production facilities and distribution. Of course there are many exceptions to this rule given outlets such as film festivals and YouTube as well as Michael Moore-level auteurs. External influences center on the blurring of lines, caused by the proliferation of television programs under the ＂umbrella＂ of reality television. This, in turn, begs the question： Is reality programming the new documentary or is it a new separate genre？ This discussion will explore the overlap and similarities that exist between documentary programming and reality television programming. Furthermore, it will develop a paradigm of comparisons that re-examines the role and character of documentary production and aesthetics within the landscape of the reality television genre.展开更多
Virtual Reality is a new technology which has been used into different subjects.The combination of Virtual reality and documentary making has showed different characteristic.The traditional narrative method has change...Virtual Reality is a new technology which has been used into different subjects.The combination of Virtual reality and documentary making has showed different characteristic.The traditional narrative method has changed and has different problems compared with traditional documentary making.This article compares the difference of VR documentary and traditional documentary in narrative method,audience experience,point out the problems of VR documentary and give advice.展开更多
This study explores how Discovering China:A Culinary Journey and A Bite of China Season 1 construct China’s image using Halliday’s transitivity system.By analyzing material,mental,relational,and verbal processes,it ...This study explores how Discovering China:A Culinary Journey and A Bite of China Season 1 construct China’s image using Halliday’s transitivity system.By analyzing material,mental,relational,and verbal processes,it highlights differences in narrative strategies and cultural perspectives.While Discovering China focuses on dynamic actions and the host’s experiences,A Bite of China emphasizes human-centered storytelling and cultural depth.The study underscores language’s role in shaping national identity and cross-cultural communication.展开更多
Cities serve as windows into human civilization,key spatial nodes for national communication,and carriers and repositories of rich and colorful Chinese stories.How to tell cities'stories well,and thus tell China&#...Cities serve as windows into human civilization,key spatial nodes for national communication,and carriers and repositories of rich and colorful Chinese stories.How to tell cities'stories well,and thus tell China's stories well?In Shandong Province,documentaries and animations have been used to break cultural barriers and open new horizons in city-fo cused international communication.展开更多
As presented in documentary form,the discourse of the last one hundred years of modern Chinese education is very different from its written counterpart.Documentary discourse provides a perspective on education as real...As presented in documentary form,the discourse of the last one hundred years of modern Chinese education is very different from its written counterpart.Documentary discourse provides a perspective on education as realized and understood through the lens.On screen,evolving thoughts on Chinese education have been reconstructed.This article reviews and explores developments in the history of educational documentary in China.The value of the audio-visual method of expressing the essence of education is pursued.The meaning of this evidence is thus restored.展开更多
As the number of short video users continues to grow,China is embracing the“mobile vertical screen era.”To satisfy users'demands for a quicker immersive experience,major platforms are adopting a vertical screen ...As the number of short video users continues to grow,China is embracing the“mobile vertical screen era.”To satisfy users'demands for a quicker immersive experience,major platforms are adopting a vertical screen format for micro-movies and videos,particularly given the maturity of the fragmented online context,initiatives for aging media adaptation,and the trend towards younger internet users.These factors provide a prime opportunity for the development of vertical screen video formats.Many short video platforms have begun experimenting with vertical documentaries.This paper takes the vertical documentary“Talking to Strangers”as a case study to discuss its strengths and weaknesses in conjunction with the future development of vertical screen documentaries.In today's era of fragmentation,where various types of work are emerging,how to make vertical screen documentaries into refined classics is a question worth considering and discussing deeply.展开更多
Genealogies,alongside local chronicles and official histories,constitute a significant pillar in the development of Chinese historiography.Beyond their historical value,genealogies also serve as a primary means for ov...Genealogies,alongside local chronicles and official histories,constitute a significant pillar in the development of Chinese historiography.Beyond their historical value,genealogies also serve as a primary means for overseas Chinese communities to trace their ancestral roots,rendering them invaluable documentary resources within contemporary global Chinese diasporas.This review aims to discuss the scholarly contribution and systematic advancement provided by Wang Heming’s The General Theory of China’s Genealogy to the field of Chinese genealogy.展开更多
Giant panda writing is a classic form of thematic nature writing.Since the scientific discovery and the popularization of the giant panda by naturalists,this writing tradition has spanned nearly a century.Throughout t...Giant panda writing is a classic form of thematic nature writing.Since the scientific discovery and the popularization of the giant panda by naturalists,this writing tradition has spanned nearly a century.Throughout this process,Chinese giant panda writing has developed its own distinct characteristics.Western giant panda writing encompasses genres such as scientific essays,fieldwork notes,and documentary works.Within Chinese giant panda writing,reportage,popular science works,and comprehensive,systematic documentary works all have representative authors and texts.In recent years,IP-oriented giant panda books have shown notable performance.While Chinese giant panda writing exhibits diverse types and perspectives,its scientific rigor,informative value,and innovative expression still require enhancement.As a form of thematic nature writing,giant panda writing provides valuable insights for writings on other subjects.展开更多
文摘The Last Watch Chief Director:Ma Wanting Length:Eight Episodes Producers:bilibili and Shanxi Cultural Relics Bureau Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Cultural relics are symbols of the wisdom of Chinese ancestors and traditional Chinese culture.Shanxi,a mountainous province in north China,is now a popular travel destination with a rich cultural heritage.
文摘If Treasures Could Talk Season IV Chief Director:Xu Huan Length:25 Episodes Producers:China Central Television(CCTV),and National Cultural Heritage Administration Broadcasting Platforms:bilibili,iQIYI,Tecent Video,Migu Video,and Youku The documentary series tells the stories of cultural relics from Song(960-1279)to Qing(1644-1911)dynasties in five-minute episodes.Through presenting the Chinese spirit,aesthetics,and values represented in each relic,it gives viewers a broader understanding of Chinese culture.
文摘Thirty Thousand Days on Earth Directors:Xu Dong and Liu Jianing Length:10 Episodes Producer:Shandong Radio and TV Station Broadcasting Platform:bilibili Data from the National Health Commission shows that the average life expectancy in China reached 78.6 years in 2023.
文摘Seeing Design in the Ordinary Chief Director:Ye Shen Length:Six Episodes Producers:bilibili,Xiaohe Media Broadcasting Platform:bilibili This is the first 4K documentary series in the field of design.What is good design?How does a design proceed from inspiration to presentation?The film traces the origin of design in people’s everyday life.Combined with rich animation and creative photography,it presents the designer’s inner world to pique people’s curiosity and make them question the design of objects around them.Through different categories of design,such as folk art,architecture,and public spaces,it provides an understanding of design and its application.
文摘Ten Thousand Years of Life.Chief Director:Zhou Xiaomeng.Length:12 Episodes.Producers:Hunan TV,Mango TV,and OBM.Broadcasting Platforms:Mango TV,and bilibili.In the backdrop of China’s aging society,this film series focuses on the community of elderly people in China who have enjoyed longevity.
文摘This series of films is the first documentary of its kind to present a few of the weirdest foods across China.Throughout human history,the foods that people rely on for survival have gradually become more appetizing,creating various traditions of different flavors which have been preserved and passed down to today.
基金supported by a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
文摘This paper focuses on Chinese sources suggested for a narrative medicine(NM)program,called AfterWards.Dr Lauren Small established AfterWards in 2014 and has been coordinating it since out of the Pediatrics Department at Johns Hopkins Medicine.In early 2019,she started giving a series of lectures and workshops about AfterWards to Chinese medical educators and clinicians in Beijing and Shanghai.She created an AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide based on Western-language sources for workshop participants.She also started to organize with Jiang Yuhong(Peking Union Medical College)a workshop for Chinese colleagues to be held at Johns Hopkins Medicine in October 2019.They invited the author to participate.The idea was hatched then to develop Chinese source materials following the AfterWards structure for an updated Facilitator’s Guide that Dr Small had initially written.A typical one-hour AfterWards session consists of a specific five-part structure:a literary text or artwork,an associated theme,discussion topics,a writing exercise,and shared reflection.While the content of the program always changes from session to session,the basic structure remains the same.This paper summarizes the types of Chinese sources and their related narrative-medicine themes that were originally selected for inclusion in the updated AfterWards Facilitator’s Guide intended for Chinese colleagues.These sources about coping with sick family members,aging,and illness ranged from the textual(classical Chinese poems on aging and diagnostic forms for training students)and visual(premodern Chinese paintings and murals of medical encounters)to the fictive(novels)and performative(contemporary Asian-American film in English and Chinese-language film and documentaries).
文摘As an important means of cultural transmission,documentaries are a powerful tool to make known the five thousand years of Chinese civilization to people all over the world.The“Wild China”of BBC version,popular among the great majority of overseas audience,serves as a successful carrier of Chinese culture export.Based on the theory of low-context and high-context culture,this paper uses the method of text analysis and focuses on the study of the texts in the Chinese and English versions of“Wild China”and explores the differences in the texts in terms of content and rhythm.The purpose of this study is to avoid cultural misunderstanding and optimize communication effect.Findings of this study show that against the background of low-context(English)and high-context(Chinese)culture,the English version has a good sense of rhythm,uses rhetoric for vivid description,expresses ideas directly,and provides explanation for phenomena through narrating or telling a story.But Chinese version has plainer descriptions,uses more euphemistic or abstract words,analyzes phenomena in less detail and narrates more formally.So,it is suggested that in translating texts into English,concepts need to be made accessible,logical and direct with more explanation,more rhetoric,more objective evaluation,and less pursuit of artistic abstraction.These communication strategies conforming to low-context culture can help overseas audience accept Chinese culture more easily.
文摘The culture and history of traditional documentaries carries a set of expectations about types and topics, which are covered by the genre. Documentaries are designed to push social agendas with few thoughts to the audience reaction. They align more closely with the vision of the creators and producers, often delivering ideological expressions that present cultural, political, and historical content. However, this might be a voice from the past as television, film, and consumer-generated content finds easy voices for expression due to accessibility of technology in the digital era. The role of documentaries as a genre is in the process of changing. The challenges to this type of production are the result of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Production costs for creating documentaries have simultaneously soared and shrunk, depending on the accessibility of equipment, post-production facilities and distribution. Of course there are many exceptions to this rule given outlets such as film festivals and YouTube as well as Michael Moore-level auteurs. External influences center on the blurring of lines, caused by the proliferation of television programs under the ＂umbrella＂ of reality television. This, in turn, begs the question： Is reality programming the new documentary or is it a new separate genre？ This discussion will explore the overlap and similarities that exist between documentary programming and reality television programming. Furthermore, it will develop a paradigm of comparisons that re-examines the role and character of documentary production and aesthetics within the landscape of the reality television genre.
文摘Virtual Reality is a new technology which has been used into different subjects.The combination of Virtual reality and documentary making has showed different characteristic.The traditional narrative method has changed and has different problems compared with traditional documentary making.This article compares the difference of VR documentary and traditional documentary in narrative method,audience experience,point out the problems of VR documentary and give advice.
基金supported by the 2024 Provincial Key Project of the College Students’Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program,“Research on the Construction of China’s National Image Based on International Mainstream Media Corpus”(Project Number:202410327045Z)the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics Teaching Reform Project,“Exploration and Practice of Ideological and Political Education in Elementary Japanese Courses:A Multidimensional Integration from Language Origins to Social Issues”(Project Number:XJWC3202449).
文摘This study explores how Discovering China:A Culinary Journey and A Bite of China Season 1 construct China’s image using Halliday’s transitivity system.By analyzing material,mental,relational,and verbal processes,it highlights differences in narrative strategies and cultural perspectives.While Discovering China focuses on dynamic actions and the host’s experiences,A Bite of China emphasizes human-centered storytelling and cultural depth.The study underscores language’s role in shaping national identity and cross-cultural communication.
文摘Cities serve as windows into human civilization,key spatial nodes for national communication,and carriers and repositories of rich and colorful Chinese stories.How to tell cities'stories well,and thus tell China's stories well?In Shandong Province,documentaries and animations have been used to break cultural barriers and open new horizons in city-fo cused international communication.
文摘As presented in documentary form,the discourse of the last one hundred years of modern Chinese education is very different from its written counterpart.Documentary discourse provides a perspective on education as realized and understood through the lens.On screen,evolving thoughts on Chinese education have been reconstructed.This article reviews and explores developments in the history of educational documentary in China.The value of the audio-visual method of expressing the essence of education is pursued.The meaning of this evidence is thus restored.
文摘As the number of short video users continues to grow,China is embracing the“mobile vertical screen era.”To satisfy users'demands for a quicker immersive experience,major platforms are adopting a vertical screen format for micro-movies and videos,particularly given the maturity of the fragmented online context,initiatives for aging media adaptation,and the trend towards younger internet users.These factors provide a prime opportunity for the development of vertical screen video formats.Many short video platforms have begun experimenting with vertical documentaries.This paper takes the vertical documentary“Talking to Strangers”as a case study to discuss its strengths and weaknesses in conjunction with the future development of vertical screen documentaries.In today's era of fragmentation,where various types of work are emerging,how to make vertical screen documentaries into refined classics is a question worth considering and discussing deeply.
基金supported by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences(Grant ID:18WZS022)。
文摘Genealogies,alongside local chronicles and official histories,constitute a significant pillar in the development of Chinese historiography.Beyond their historical value,genealogies also serve as a primary means for overseas Chinese communities to trace their ancestral roots,rendering them invaluable documentary resources within contemporary global Chinese diasporas.This review aims to discuss the scholarly contribution and systematic advancement provided by Wang Heming’s The General Theory of China’s Genealogy to the field of Chinese genealogy.
文摘Giant panda writing is a classic form of thematic nature writing.Since the scientific discovery and the popularization of the giant panda by naturalists,this writing tradition has spanned nearly a century.Throughout this process,Chinese giant panda writing has developed its own distinct characteristics.Western giant panda writing encompasses genres such as scientific essays,fieldwork notes,and documentary works.Within Chinese giant panda writing,reportage,popular science works,and comprehensive,systematic documentary works all have representative authors and texts.In recent years,IP-oriented giant panda books have shown notable performance.While Chinese giant panda writing exhibits diverse types and perspectives,its scientific rigor,informative value,and innovative expression still require enhancement.As a form of thematic nature writing,giant panda writing provides valuable insights for writings on other subjects.
