ABSTRACT
Co-productions in film and media have intensified in the age of globalization. This chapter focuses on the various factors at work in the Chinese context, from censorship, to cultural and diplomatic forces that could disrupt co-production efforts and transnational cultural flows. It aims to draws on the precarities of transnational media/cultural circulation, when geopolitics collapses in the popular culture. The rapid extension into the international stage has caused China to capitalize on co-production to advance its film production, but it only thinly veils the state’s entrenched distrust of foreign films as potential “imperialistic” elements that looks set to unsettle and corrupt the minds of its nationals into possible dissenting force. The “Korea ban” was China’s justified act of reprisal, but it could be an excuse to vent out the deep-seated cultural nationalism at force, and a show of force through the self-censorship and self-harming practices.
