@article{ART003341705},
author={Zhou Yi and LUCHEN},
title={A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood},
journal={The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China},
issn={1738-0502},
year={2026},
number={80},
pages={587-612},
doi={10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021}
TY - JOUR
AU - Zhou Yi
AU - LUCHEN
TI - A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood
JO - The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
PY - 2026
VL - null
IS - 80
PB - Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
SP - 587
EP - 612
SN - 1738-0502
AB - This study examines the representation of Chinese characters in South Korean feature films released after 2000 from the perspective of othering, focusing on character types, narrative positioning, and audiovisual coding. As the Korean film industry has expanded and economic exchange, population mobility, and cultural contact between Korea and China have intensified, Chinese characters have appeared more frequently in Korean cinema and gradually formed relatively stable representational patterns. Combining close textual reading with sample-based categorization, this study analyzes four major types of representation: crime/violence, lower-class/migrant, affective/intimate, and functionally neutral figures. The analysis shows that the representation of Chinese characters in Korean cinema has shifted from a relatively singular antagonistic mode to a more differentiated pattern. However, this change has not fundamentally altered their narrative position. In most cases, Chinese characters still do not occupy the narrative center; rather, they are assigned meaning as threats, marginal figures, emotional objects, or differential collaborators in relation to Korean protagonists. This article argues that changes in the representation of Chinese characters in twenty-first-century Korean cinema are better understood as an adjustment in the forms of othering than as the dissolution of otherness itself.
KW - Korean cinema;Chinese image;otherin;media representation;cross-cultural representation
DO - 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
ER -
Zhou Yi and LUCHEN. (2026). A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 587-612.
Zhou Yi and LUCHEN. 2026, "A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood", The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, no.80, pp.587-612. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi, LUCHEN "A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China 80 pp.587-612 (2026) : 587.
Zhou Yi, LUCHEN. A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood. 2026; 80 : 587-612. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi and LUCHEN. "A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 587-612.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi; LUCHEN. A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China, 80, 587-612. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi; LUCHEN. A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood. The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China. 2026; 80 587-612. doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi, LUCHEN. A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood. 2026; 80 : 587-612. Available from: doi:10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
Zhou Yi and LUCHEN. "A Study on the Image of Chinese People in Korean Films from the Perspective of Otherhood" The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China no.80(2026) : 587-612.doi: 10.16874/jslckc.2026..80.021
