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Multimedia is a useful tool to document peoples' lives, cultures, and the specific social, political, and economic issues they face. The Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Library Database offers a collection of photographs, audio, and film galleries to advance the greater understanding of Chinese ethnic groups through different mediums.
The camera is an important tool in recording the lives, conditions, events, and changes affecting a people or place. Each gallery in the Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Database documents specific ethnic groups and regions found throughout China. All photography galleries illustrate one or more of China's ethnic groups.
William Nitzky
Jay Hubert
UHM Chinese Students
Film uses the components of the audio and visual to document. It acts not only as a tool to frame and capture the image, but also illustrates through movement and sound. Film has allowed the public to embrace the various cultures and landscapes of China. After the establishment of the PRC, ethnologists, historians, and filmmakers have conducted fieldwork using film to investigate ethnic minority societies. Today, thousands of films have been produced to document the diversity of China's ethnic communities.
The film galleries collected here are from two University of Hawaii graduate students.
Jennifer Dunn - The Mosuo: Lives and Issues of Lugu Lake
William Nitzky - Constructed Identities through the Minzu Cun - Chinese 2004 Summer Cultural Tour
Audio is a form of media that is often used to complement or supplement, adding texture to, another media such as film or television. Audio, in and of itself, can be used to introduce the dynamics of sound. It does not present everything to the audience, allowing for forms of creativity, emotion, sensation, and expectation to emerge.
Jennifer Dunn
William Nitzky