‘When Ordinary Seeing Fails’: Reclaiming the Art of Documentary in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 China Film Chung Kuo Alice Xiang July 2013 Feature Articles Introduction and Context: (Up)Setting the Stage “It was the mid-1970s,” reminisces a Chinese blogger, writing over three decades later in November 2009. “I was in my third year of primary school … in a small J...
