Yue Chen- Media and Ideas of Modernity and Citizenship in Japanese-Occupied Manchuria

Description:
Yue Chen is a Chinese teacher and a former Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon. She specializes in the study of Chinese and Japanese film and literature. Chen argues that the film and literature produced by the Manchukuo government defined new concepts of modernity, and aimed strengthen the notion of a unified Manchukuo citizenship among a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic population.