Speaker: Gu Si-Yang
Speech Introduction: In the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai became a dynamic metropolis, blending Western influences with traditional Chinese culture and creating a unique urban atmosphere. This fusion of ideas and aesthetics shaped every aspect of city life, especially cinema, which was pivotal in expressing and influencing this cultural combination.
Gu Si-Yang examines films from this era that captured the tensions between tradition and progress, offering a window into a society’s hopes, struggles, and aspirations on the verge of transformation. This speech delves deeper into these cinematic and cultural developments, exploring their lasting impact on Shanghai and the broader trajectory of Chinese modernity.
Gu Si-Yang: Gu Si-Yang has devoted a significant portion of his academic career to the study of modern and contemporary Chinese art history, cultural policy and ideology. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Griffith University and a Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours from the University of New South Wales in Australia. He subsequently completed a Master of Arts in Art History at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and is currently a doctoral candidate at Queen’s University Belfast in the United Kingdom.
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