Beyond Public Discourse: Cultural Trauma, Social Imaginary, and Alternative Meaning-Making among Chinese Middling Transnational Audiences
This thesis examines how cultural trauma is mediated and negotiated through film engagement in the post-pandemic and post-socialist Chinese context. Focusing on Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film, the study investigates how fragmented pandemic experiences become meaningful under conditions where public discourse is restricted. It particularly explores how middling transnational Chinese audiences revisit
