Ungovernable Media: Cinema and the Pedagogy of Failure in Nationalist China

In the 1930s and 1940s, educators working with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) turned to cinema as a means of educating the nation yet found that film was far from a nimble pedagogical aid. This is the first study of the Chinese Educational Film Movement, the name given to their efforts. Considering the work of institutions often overlooked in Chinese film historiography, including mass education centers and missionary universities, this book chronicles how educators grappled with an un...