To remind you of my mini-series on Hunan province—its ritual and expressive cultures, the famine, and social issues:

• The great Yang Yinliu’s wide-ranging fieldtrip in summer 1956
• including remnants of the Confucian ritual in Liuyang

• The famine, and glimpses of the early 1960s’ cultural revival in response to desperation (for more on the national famine, and Ukraine, see here, and under the famine tag)

• Daoist ritual in Hunan

• Ritual and masked drama
• Enduring social issues: the films of Jiang Nengjie—with a note on mining elsewhere (now with a link to Hu Jie’s bleak film set in the mountains of Qinghai).