Understanding China’s environmental challenges: lessons from documentaries

Liu, John Chung‐En; Huang, He Qing; Ma, Jingyi

doi:10.1007/s13412-018-0526-1

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“…However, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) restricted or censored many environmental films, including Under the Dome , on the basis of their “foreign production, collective action potential, or excessive popularity” (Liu et al., 2018, 151). Other counter‐hegemonic documentaries met the same fate.…”

Section: From Documentaries To Docudramasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China

Liu,

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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This study examines docudramatic representations of human‐pet relationships in China, applying the conversational storytelling research method. The study takes Modern Furry Tale (MFT, 2021), a controversial docudrama streamed on the Tencent Video platform as its targeted case. The article argues that contemporary Chinese docudramas do not so much “document reality” as continue a “cinematic tradition” of presenting “selected reality” by showing an idealized view of the pets“ living conditions and their owners” family lives. Describing and constructing friendly and companionable pet‐human relationships, these docudramas reinforce the dominant “positive energy” state ideology, propagandistic mainstream family values, and repressive gender ideologies.

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Section: From Documentaries To Docudramasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China

Liu,

2023

The J of Popular Culture

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“…Nature documentaries provide mediated experience of nature and have been shown to promote conservation awareness and efforts among the general public (McCormack et al, 2021). For example, nature documentaries increase social support for conservation organisations through donation and volunteering (Jones et al, 2019), drive policy change to protect wildlife and nature (Aitchison, Aitchison, & Devas, 2021;Boissat, Thomas-Walters, & Veríssimo, 2021), and promote the end of illegal wildlife trade (Liu, Huang, & Ma, 2018) and irresponsible wildlife shows at theme parks (Boissat, Thomas-Walters, & Veríssimo, 2021). Compared to other conventional ways of experiencing nature in urban settings, such as visiting parks or zoos, nature documentaries have two key differences.…”

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“…Most of the earlier studies are descriptive in nature (Chu, 2017;Lv, 2018), or lack a focus on conservation as a main theme. For example, some studies focus only on specific types of nature documentaries, such as environmental films (Liu et al, 2018), while others focus on film aesthetics (Ji, 2017;Deng, 2018), the art of translation (Wang, 2018), or culture transmission (Yang & Zhao, 2011). There have been limited attempts to date to conduct a large-scale and in-depth content analysis of nature documentaries in China, particularly in terms of their potential to promote both national and global conservation awareness.…”

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confidence: 99%

Content analysis of nature documentaries in China: challenges and opportunities to raise public conservation awareness

Wei¹,

Berdejo‐Espinola²,

Amano³

et al. 2023

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1. In the Anthropocene, the general public is a key part of biodiversity conservation since several aspects of their daily life are inevitably linked to major threats to biodiversity. It is thus important to improve their conservation awareness. While a growing body of research has demonstrated the potential of English-language nature documentaries to raise public conservation awareness, little attention has been paid to the potential of non-English-language nature documentaries. 2. Here, we assessed the challenges and opportunities for nature documentaries broadcasted in China in 2021 to raise public conservation awareness by investigating their thematic, geographical, and taxonomic coverages using a content analysis approach. 3. We found that terrestrial biomes, mammals, and birds were overrepresented in nature documentaries in China, while only a quarter of documentaries explicitly covered human destructive impacts on nature. To further promote public conservation awareness, there is an urgent need to cover under-represented realms/biomes (e.g., freshwater realm and deep-marine biome), taxa (e.g., invertebrates, plants, and fungi), and anthropogenic threats in future documentaries. Nevertheless, nature documentaries in China also showed a relatively good coverage of threatened species and biomes under human influence (e.g., cities and farmlands), which have increasingly been shown to be important for conservation.4. We also found that domestically-produced, Chinese-language nature documentaries provided unique information on biodiversity and ecosystems in China, such as local biomes and endemic species, highlighting their role in raising conservation awareness in China and worldwide. However, only 9% of them provided English subtitles/versions. Making Chinese-language nature documentaries accessible to the global community by translating them into other languages would help us increase international awareness of biodiversity in China.5. The methodological approach of this study is easily applicable to nature documentaries produced in other parts of the world. By better understanding the content coverage of nature documentaries globally, we can address knowledge gaps in their thematic, geographical, and taxonomic coverages and maximise their contribution to raising conservation awareness.

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“…In recent years, China's eco-cinema as an independent documentary outfit has generated greater attention in the humanities with regards to the achievement of variety via multimedia documentaries (Cui, 2017). Particularly, environmental documentary in China offers students the opportunity to understand environmental challenges as well as offering voices to the marginalized groups and emotional connections to further motivate learning interests among students (Liu et al, 2019). To this end, given the evolution of news and information dissemination, credibility of news is viewed in China as the accuracy and authenticity of information which matches facts to reflect objective reality.…”

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Factors Influencing Audience Satisfaction of Chinese Documentary Programs among Undergraduate Students in China

Li¹,

Yasin²,

Hashim³

et al. 2023

IJARBSS

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This study seeks to explore the factors influencing audience satisfaction of Chinese documentary programs among undergraduate students in Peking, mainland China. Viewership and preference for Chinese documentaries as well as satisfaction derived from Chinese documentaries form the informant's social, culture, political, and environmental consciousness. Thus, the objective of this study is to ascertain the satisfaction of the audience derives from Chinese documentary TV programs and to understand informant's preference for Chinese documentaries. The present study leverages on data was gathered via interview with 20 students as the informants residing in Peking mainland, China. Findings indicate that audience satisfaction of Chinese documentary emanates from students longing for a credible and up-to-date sources of information evident in the content of Chinese documentary programs. Additionally, their knowledge of events around them as well as their roots is further enhanced by their viewership of Chinese documentary programs. Further findings also suggest the uses and gratifications approach of media explains the audience's perception, preference, and viewership of Chinese documentary programs.

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Understanding China’s environmental challenges: lessons from documentaries

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China

Lovely heteronormative families in a harmonious society? The docudrama representations of the human‐pet relationship in contemporary China

Content analysis of nature documentaries in China: challenges and opportunities to raise public conservation awareness

Factors Influencing Audience Satisfaction of Chinese Documentary Programs among Undergraduate Students in China

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