{"id":35680,"date":"2018-06-15T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:47:50","slug":"10680-is-china-getting-the-cli-fi-it-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/climate\/10680-is-china-getting-the-cli-fi-it-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Is China getting the \u2018cli-fi\u2019 it needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As China has emerged as a global power playing an active role in international affairs, its filmmakers have found willing audiences for films heavy on action-packed shootouts, kung-fu heroes, and the defeat of foreign enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The plots of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6044910\/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2\"><em>Operation Mekong<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6878882\/\"><em>Operation Red Sea<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7131870\/\"><em>Wolf Warrior<\/em><\/a> are some of the best examples. The tropes are much the same: a poor, backwards and dangerous country with rebel armies, failing Western-style aid, and outnumbered Chinese heroes saving the day.<\/p>\n<p>The nationalism underpinning these films has garnered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robcain\/2017\/08\/27\/chinas-wolf-warrior-2-becomes-2nd-film-in-history-to-reach-800m-in-a-single-territory\/#1bcb9d6c3460\">box office success<\/a><u>,<\/u> even though the overblown plots are at odds with China&rsquo;s real-world &ldquo;wait and see&rdquo; approach to most international and regional issues.<\/p>\n<p>It is a pity, then, that filmmakers are ignoring a subject where China is emerging as a leader on the global stage, that is, on climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China in Hollywood cli-fi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to know if there are many Chinese fans of &ldquo;cli-fi&rdquo; movies &ndash; those rare films that take climate change as their subject matter. If there are, they may have noticed the growing reference to China in Hollywood films with climate themes.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example, the 2017 blockbuster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1981128\/\"><em>Geostorm<\/em><\/a>, which did well at the Chinese box office but had poor reviews. In it, a satellite system designed to avert natural disasters and fix global warming by modifying the weather is weaponised, threatening disaster.<\/p>\n<p>As the film starts, we are told that China and the United States are leading the planet&rsquo;s best scientists in their (misguided) attempt to deliver fantastical climate engineering solutions that can save humanity from heatwaves and cold snaps.<\/p>\n<p>China soon disappears from the story though after Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu is killed off, leaving the film to get back to its conventional plot in which a white male hero saves the day.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best known cli-fi movies so far, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1190080\/?ref_=ttls_li_tt\"><em>2012<\/em><\/a>, has plot elements that involve China more prominently. As huge floods threaten humanity&rsquo;s future, China&rsquo;s factories come to the rescue, working day and night to produce high-tech floating arks before the waters rise.<\/p>\n<p>But as David S Roh and others have pointed out, myths of Asia&rsquo;s technology and manufacturing prowess are just another method of objectification and mystification &ndash; a type of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt1647cqh\">techno-orientalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/4104\/image1__2_.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/4104\/image1__2_.png\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu had a small role in&nbsp;<em>Geostorm<\/em>&nbsp;but was killed off before the halfway point (Image:&nbsp;<em>Geostorm<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>An awkward absence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historically, climate change has not lent itself easily to films outside of documentaries, or effects-driven disaster movies like <em>The Day After Tomorrow<\/em>, meaning there are few cli-fi examples. And&nbsp;it isn&#39;t hard to understand why China&rsquo;s climate leadership fails to make it into the scripts of US films. If Chinese filmmakers are failing to acknowledge China&rsquo;s role, can Hollywood be expected to?<\/p>\n<p>Look to China and we find, to our surprise, that Chinese cinema has done even less than Hollywood to reflect the country&rsquo;s important international role in tackling climate change. In fact, 18 years into this century, there has not been one notable film that deals with the topic, although there are quite a few good films that look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/culture\/8804-Top-films-on-China-and-the-environment\/en\">human and environmental costs<\/a> of China&rsquo;s rapid development.<\/p>\n<p>It is not that Chinese filmmakers cannot see opportunities to cash in on China&rsquo;s growth as a global power; recent films portray China as taking on global, not just regional, responsibilities. In this year&rsquo;s <em>Operation Red Sea<\/em>, for example, Chinese special forces don&rsquo;t just rescue Chinese nationals from turmoil in the Middle East, they also seize the chemical precursors of a nuclear weapon from rebel hands, helping to avert a global disaster.<\/p>\n<p>These films tap into a desire among Chinese audiences to see their country flex its muscle, but the fantasy element can go too far and seem absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Given the rich tradition of cinematic realism in China, there is a great opportunity to tell the story of China&rsquo;s rise through the exploration of subject matter that is much closer to reality. An obvious area is climate action, for which China is making global headlines, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/9348-Can-renewable-energy-help-address-poverty-in-China-\">surge of renewable power<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/en\/10335-Chinese-coal-town-embraces-electric-vehicles\">electric vehicle revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What kind of cli-fi does China need?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And it is definitely not impossible to make a film about this topic. In fact, China actually produced a cli-fi movie back in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Feng Xiaoning&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2626660\/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_9\"><em>Disappearing Atmosphere<\/em><\/a> looks like a children&rsquo;s movie, complete with talking cats, dogs and horses. But the storyline is adult. When thieves unwittingly release a gas that destroys the ozone layer, animals help a young boy find the source of the problem. A dog sacrifices itself to eliminate the harmful gas. Ultimately, scientists, children and animals work together to save the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The end credits include a long and dull list of pollution statistics, with a clear message: we might have been saved from disaster this time, but China must face up to ongoing environmental degradation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/4119\/image3.jpg \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/chinadialogue-production.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/content_image\/content_image\/4119\/image3.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"caption\">Disappearing Atmosphere: &ldquo;In the 95 minutes of this film, two species have become extinct and 2,000 hectares of forest have disappeared.&rdquo; (Image: <em>Disappearing Atmosphere<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The movie featured crude special effects and some of the plot arrangements are debatable, but it carried a strong moral message. And in 1990 there was no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/ch\/9865-Can-Brazil-replicate-China-s-success-in-solar-\">rapidly expanding solar power sector<\/a> to discuss, the Ministry of Environmental Protection wouldn&rsquo;t be established for another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/article\/show\/single\/ch\/10502-China-reshapes-ministries-to-better-protect-environment\">18 years<\/a>, and Chinese coal consumption wouldn&rsquo;t plateau for another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadialogue.net\/blog\/10424-China-s-coal-consumption-grows-slightly\/en\">23 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In our current decade concern over pollution and support for an ecological civilisation has risen in China.<\/p>\n<p>The results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.efchina.org\/Reports-en\/report-comms-20171108-en\">survey<\/a> of 4,000 people carried out by the China Centre for Climate Change Communication, a joint project by Renmin University and Oxfam Hong Kong, published in November 2017, found 78% of respondents expressed some degree of concern over climate change and&nbsp;89% felt the government should take climate change seriously. However, the same survey found only 11% of respondents know a lot about climate change.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing is believing, and perhaps cinema can bring home the reality of climate change. A modern Chinese cli-fi film would&nbsp;help people understand the urgency of this threat to all humanity, and prompt them to take a look at the impacts of their own lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>As for how to make that into a gripping story &ndash; well, that&rsquo;s up to China&rsquo;s movie makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If seeing is believing, Chinese filmmakers have a role in bringing home the reality of climate change, writes <strong>Tang Damin<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2674,"featured_media":60093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[761],"tags":[519],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-35680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate","tag-climate-impacts"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is China getting the \u2018cli-fi\u2019 it needs? 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