{"id":86732,"date":"2017-02-13T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=86732"},"modified":"2017-02-12T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T17:28:06","slug":"socialist-cuba-china-begin-new-era-of-internationalist-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/02\/socialist-cuba-china-begin-new-era-of-internationalist-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Socialist Cuba, China Begin New Era of Internationalist Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of the world\u2019s fastest-growing film industries \u2014 Cuba and China \u2014 are on a mission to produce joint box office hits.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Havana’s Barrio Chino (Chinatown). | Photo: Reuters<\/p><\/div>\n

10 Feb 2017 – <\/em>Miguel Angel Ramirez, Cuba\u2019s Ambassador to China, and Jonathan Shen, head of China\u2019s Shinework Pictures, met in Beijing on Friday [10 Feb] to expand bilateral film industry cooperation. Shinework Pictures, one of the country\u2019s largest film companies, produced the Chinese bestseller \u201cKung Fu Yoga\u201d last month.<\/p>\n

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Ramirez and Shen expressed the intention\u00a0to expose Cuban and Chinese culture to their respective countries through cinematography, Prensa Latina reports. This includes producing new films with plots featuring characters from both nations.<\/p>\n

Last year, Cuban and Chinese filmmakers produced \u201cAmor en La Habana,\u201d a film set in Havana\u2019s Barrio Chino (Chinatown). It chronicles the love story of two young students, one Cuban and another Chinese, who fall in love while studying on the island together. The plot reflects the trials and tribulations of a relationship between people of distinct cultures.<\/p>\n

The 2016 film was the first joint Cuban-Chinese film.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vMGxtb4O_Do<\/p>\n

\u201cHavana has inspired many writers, painters, poets, and singers,\u201d then Cuban Ambassador to China Alberto Blanco said of the inaugural project. \u201cIn the 1960s, a Chinese friend who created the song \u2018La Linda Habana\u2019 inspired the idea behind this movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, Cuban and Chinese officials are planning to commission more films like \u201cAmor en La Habana\u201d that display their country\u2019s cultural relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project will promote successful cooperation in this area, resulting in a beneficial cultural exchange between the two countries,\u201d Shen said, Prensa Latina reports.<\/p>\n

Since the mid-1990s, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, the ruling communist parties of Cuba and China have strengthened cooperation in a number of industries, including film. Although the Cuban government sided with the Soviet Union during the Sino-Soviet split that began in the 1960s, both countries have since mended relations.<\/p>\n

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China is currently Cuba\u2019s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, with bilateral trade surpassing US$750 million, according to the Financial Times.<\/p>\n

China has also exported goods and resources to Cuba that have allowed the socialist island to rehaul its transportation infrastructure, including the addition of energy-efficient public buses that run on electricity.<\/p>\n

Both governments also cooperate on security and intelligence matters.<\/p>\n

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China is currently Cuba\u2019s second largest trading partner after Venezuela, with bilateral trade surpassing US$750 million, according to the Financial Times. China has also exported goods and resources to Cuba that have allowed the socialist island to rehaul its transportation infrastructure, including the addition of energy-efficient public buses that run on electricity. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latin-america-and-the-caribbean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}