“Mao’s Children are Wearing Fashion!”: Romantic Love, Fashion Consumption, and the Politics of Socialist Modernization in Huang Zumo’s Film “Romance on Lu Mountain” (1980)

Speaker: Calvin HuiModerator: Alvin K. Wong Date: Wednesday, 1 December 2021Time: 5:00 pm (HKT) on Zoom In this talk, I engage with Huang Zumo’s (黃祖模) film Romance on Lu Mountain (廬山戀) (1980) to explore the consumption of romantic love (including the first representation of a kiss in the People’s Republic of China cinema), fashionable clothes, and petty …