The Historical Interpretation, Imagination And Production Of Meaning Of The Qing Dynasty In Chinese—language Film History

In Chinese-language film history, the Chinese filmmakers made a lot of films about the Qing Dynasty . These films tell the story and the history of the Qing Dynasty, also pass on the meaning and the imagination of the history. By using film history studies and cultural studies combine the genre studies , text case studies, comparative studies and audience research, reception aesthetics and so on, This paper analysize about how Chinese-language films tell the history of the Qing Dynasty and how to express, imagine and produce the meaning of Qing Dynasty.The whole paper is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is about the history of the development of Chinese-language films which tell the story of Qing Dynasty. The periods of the expression of Qing Dynasty in Chinese-language film history can be dividede into three stages: the Chinese-language film into explorations of the Qing Dynasty (1920-1949), Mainland,Taiwan and Hongkong development period (1949-1980) and the convergence of the development period ( 1980-2010) . In such three stages, each stage tracks the evolvtion of Qing Dynasty Movies and points out that the Qing Dynasty Movies is in continuous development.The second chapter selects case studies of the mainland"17 years"and analysizes how the politics influence the representation of the period film"Wu Xun"and"Song Jingshi". Highlighted in the production of these films, the specific political point lead the film's image of Qing Dynasty to"class struggle"meaning production.The third chapter mainly describes how Chinese-language films tell the Qing Dynasty"raumatic memory"and in which how to produce the meaning such as patriotism, heroism, integrity, and political legitimacy. By using some of the comparative method and the relevant historical data, this chapter shows how the Chinese-language films describe the Qing Dynasty and communicate with social and cultural psychology. This chapter also take the Taiwan&Hongkong cooperation film "xinhai shuangshi" for example, analyzes how Taiwan's mainstream film express the "traumatic memory" of the Qing Dynasty and the success of the Wuchang Uprising in 1911, so as to highlights the "political legitimacy" of Taiwan government inherited from the Republic of China founded in 1912.Chapter Four is a more extensive analysis of genre and text in Chinese-language films, mainly discusses how the Chinese Qing Dynasty Movies put historical data(particulary unofficial history)imagination and statements into the territory of the commercial operation to highlight their business value .Chapter five is from the relationship between narrative and the audience , analyzes the audience how to influence the interpretion of history of the Qing Dynasty in Chinese-language films and analysize the interaction between the representation and the audience in such films. It mainly describes how Chinese-language films about Qing Dynasty participate in the building of the National Identity of audience.