Visualising the post-2000s Inland Tibet Class generation : Female authorship and renegotiation of ethnicity

Summary, in English

This study investigates the first films made by a female director, Kangdrun (T: Gangs sgron, གངས་ྒྲསྒྲོན་, Gangzhen, 岗珍, b. 1995) belonging to the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class (ITC) generation. Following the experience of the Sinophone-Tibetan filmmaker Kangdrun in a Chinese language education environment, her films, and Tibetan cultural communities, this study discusses Kangdrun’s visual strategies for telling stories from the perspectives of children and youth through a feminine camera eye. The Chinese language education and Tibetan cultural community relations have reshaped the ethnic awareness of the post-2000s ITC generation regarding what can be called ‘a safe Chinese Tibetan citizenship’. This study contributes to a new understanding of modern Tibetan authors’ generational relationships, the expressive styles of the female Sinophone-Tibetan filmmaker, and how affective visuality mediates the cultural, political, and gender identity formation of female artists of the post-2000s ITC generation.

• Author: Jinyan Zeng
• Department/s: Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
• Publishing year: 2024-06-09
• Language: English
• Pages: 1-21
• Publication/Series: Asian Ethnicity
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2024.2363194
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Routledge
• Topic: Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Studies on Film; Social Anthropology
• Keywords: citizenship; Chinese education; ethnicity; female; film; Inland Tibet Class (ITC); visuality; youth
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1463-1369