New England Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies
Brown University
October 3, 2009
MARGINAL ON THE MARGINS: AN EXPLORATION OF WOMEN AND
REPRESENTATION IN CHINA'S INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY CINEMA
Jie Li: China's Salvation Through Women's Souls? Reception of Documentary Images of Lin Zhao, Chai Ling, and Song Binbin.
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I came across this announcement when I made a periodic search on Google and Baidu for Song Binbin in September.
When the Song constellation dominates your night sky, stumbling upon this during a routine internet search constitutes a "sign" from above.
China's Salvation Through Women's Souls?
Seeking the Soul of Lin Zhao.
China's Legal Soul.
The Struggle for the Soul of Modern China.
of a New China.
This came on top of my restlessness since the "completion" of "Beijing Diary," the gloomy realization that I was not near understanding, that I could not excise this part of all that is China and thoroughly understand it and leave all the rest, because this was a murder and at the center of any murder, and at the center of this murder at the center of the Middle Kingdom, is mens rea which is so close to "soul."
The soul is at the center of murder because every human being, by virtue of having that soul has the capacity to set the world on fire. Or to plunge it into darkness.
We are not shiny bolts.
