Events

Border Politics, Wartime Documentary – Zheng Junli and Long Live the Nation(s) (1941) Film Screening and Discussion Introduction by Ying Qian, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University Screening: Long Live the Nation(s) (documentary, dir. Zheng Junli, 1941) Introduction to Collected Works of Zheng Junli (2017), by Zheng Dali, TV director and son of Zheng Junli, and Jim Cheng, Director at the C.V. Starr East Asian Library Discussion with Zheng Dali, moderated by Jane Gaines, Professor of Film, Columbia School of the Arts Long Live the Nation(s), made by the talented progressive filmmaker Zheng Junli at the height of the Sino-Japanese War between 1939-1941, was one of earliest propaganda documentaries mobilizing non-Han peoples in the war of resistance against Japanese invasion. It remains one of the most artistically accomplished documentaries of China’s Republican Era, with a dynamic montage that bore influence from early Soviet cinema, and a complex vision of ethnic relations beyond the official ideology.