Pengnan Hu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6808607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pengnan Hu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pengnan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hu |
| SIGNATURE | HU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Education University of Hong Kong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An introduction to caring Chinese cinemas
This introductory article proposes ‘caring Chinese cinemas’ as a conceptual and methodological framework for rethinking the relations between cinema, ethics, aesthetics, ecology, politics, and criticism. Starting from recent debates on care, we emphasise both the productivity and the ambivalence of the concept: care can sustain, protect, and repair, but it can also control, exclude, or reproduce unequal relations of power. Bringing this discussio…
From Brotherhood to Homo-Desire
This article examines how Chinese bromance dramas produce and circulate homo-desire under a regime of moral censorship. Existing commentary often treats bromance as a strategic substitute for boys’ love (BL): a compromised form that compensates for the absence of explicit same-sex romance. Challenging this assumption, we draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of desiring-production to argue that bromance is not defined by what it cannot show, but…
Care of whom? How ‘鬼’ (Gui, ghost) returned in Chinese online folklore ghost films as care
AbstarctIs censorship an act of care—say, for the well-being of the audience? The answer may be ambiguous. In the case of ghost film censorship, ghosts are often banned out of a concern rooted in modernization, as they are considered irrational. However, in recent years, Chinese society has increasingly turned to folk beliefs as a source of emotional comfort in the face of life’s uncertainties. To explore this tension, I examine the resurgence of…
Roasting Mulan
for chinese audiences, Mulan, the live-action 2020 Hollywood film directed by Niki Caro, is a failure. Mulan has an all-Chinese cast and recounts an ancient and well-loved Chinese story, yet it performed poorly in China, the very country that was expected to generate a large proportion of its revenue. In fact, Mulan is one of the least popular Disney films released in China. Its $47 million box office falls well short of revenues generated by Ave…
Belt and Road Initiative-supported co-production films
Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China's geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI's pledge for a beneficial future. Even though Xuanzang's story alludes to history, it was selected for its significance in popular culture, thereby reflecting ‘hyperreality’. In any event, the Sil…
Belt and Road Initiative-supported co-production films
Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China's geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI's pledge for a beneficial future. Even though Xuanzang's story alludes to history, it was selected for its significance in popular culture, thereby reflecting ‘hyperreality’. In any event, the Sil…
Belt and Road Initiative-supported co-production films
Through policy analysis and close reading of two films, this article reveals films’ increasing role in China's geopolitical plan, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The co-production film Xuanzang shows that the Silk Road past is used to illustrate BRI's pledge for a beneficial future. Even though Xuanzang's story alludes to history, it was selected for its significance in popular culture, thereby reflecting ‘hyperreality’. In any event, the Sil…
Care of whom? How ‘鬼’ (Gui, ghost) returned in Chinese online folklore ghost films as care
AbstarctIs censorship an act of care—say, for the well-being of the audience? The answer may be ambiguous. In the case of ghost film censorship, ghosts are often banned out of a concern rooted in modernization, as they are considered irrational. However, in recent years, Chinese society has increasingly turned to folk beliefs as a source of emotional comfort in the face of life’s uncertainties. To explore this tension, I examine the resurgence of…
Roasting Mulan
for chinese audiences, Mulan, the live-action 2020 Hollywood film directed by Niki Caro, is a failure. Mulan has an all-Chinese cast and recounts an ancient and well-loved Chinese story, yet it performed poorly in China, the very country that was expected to generate a large proportion of its revenue. In fact, Mulan is one of the least popular Disney films released in China. Its $47 million box office falls well short of revenues generated by Ave…
An introduction to caring Chinese cinemas
This introductory article proposes ‘caring Chinese cinemas’ as a conceptual and methodological framework for rethinking the relations between cinema, ethics, aesthetics, ecology, politics, and criticism. Starting from recent debates on care, we emphasise both the productivity and the ambivalence of the concept: care can sustain, protect, and repair, but it can also control, exclude, or reproduce unequal relations of power. Bringing this discussio…
From Brotherhood to Homo-Desire
This article examines how Chinese bromance dramas produce and circulate homo-desire under a regime of moral censorship. Existing commentary often treats bromance as a strategic substitute for boys’ love (BL): a compromised form that compensates for the absence of explicit same-sex romance. Challenging this assumption, we draw on Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of desiring-production to argue that bromance is not defined by what it cannot show, but…
Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Ambivalence (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Censorship (1 work) · China (1 work) · China's Global Influence and Migration (1 work)