Construction Of The Other Of The Oroqen Documentaries

The Oroqen is one of the minorities with the smallest population in China and also one of the remaining hunting ethnic groups. The traditional minority culture is long regarded as national treasure and has always been enormously cherished by the government. The project to rescue endangered culture has been put on the agenda since the foundation of PRC. The documentary of a country is like a family photo album. With the functions of recording the time and keeping collective memory, documentaries turn out to be effective media to construct national images and express individual consciousness.The identity of Oroqen in the movie has always been the Other. The construction of the Other image is influenced by the social culture of different times. This article, based on the Oroqen documentaries by CCTV, attempts to analyze how the Other image is constructed through the study of elusive identity of the creator.