''Chung Kuo, Cina'' (, "
Zhongguo
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slig ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
") is a 1972 Italian
documentary directed by
Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
. Antonioni was invited to China by its government to film the documentary, but the result was subsequently attacked as slanderous by Chinese authorities and the
Italian Communist Party.
It primarily observes the lives of contemporary working class Chinese people.
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Rey Chow
Rey Chow (born 1957) is a cultural critic, specializing in 20th-century Chinese fiction and film and postcolonial theory. Educated in Hong Kong and the United States, she has taught at several major American universities, including Brown Univer ...
. China as documentary: Some basic questions (inspired by Michelangelo Antonioni and Jia Zhangke. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 2014, 17, 16–30.
doi:10.1177/1367549413501482
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''Chung Kuo, Cina'' with English subtitlesat YouTube
1970s Italian-language films
Documentary films about China
1972 films
Films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Italian documentary films
1972 documentary films
Mandarin-language films
1970s Italian films
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