Abstract:

New China has been established for 60 years, during which, together with this country, the Chinese film undergoes a great change and transition. Of course, film is a form of amusement and leisure. But it is also a kind of symbolic imagination, and an important pattern of culture belonging to a nationstate. Today, when China' s 60th anniversary is coming, a retrospection of the Chinese film in the past 60 years, no doubt, constructs a part of reflection or discussion of the "big history" from the second half of the 20th century to the 21st century, and, at the same time, an important part of recognition of China identity. This essay, while having a brief retrospection of the Chinese film in the past 60 years from the perspective of citizenship construction, tries to provide a new theoretical viewpoint and space, and, by analysis of the 60 years track of the Chinese film, discovers and considers the track of the "China dream". The author points out that the Chinese film, the development of which is a part of the development of China, always plays an important role in constructing China identity. While the Chinese film directly participates in the construction of the "new China" identity, it also directly involves in the process of reform and openingup.  The interrelated and interdependent relationship between the development of China and the development of the Chinese film is closely relative to the process of the "China dream" deployment. In fact, there is a thematic line running through the process of the Chinese film in the past 60 years. That is the process of the construction and transformation of the Chinese citizenship, and also the process of setting up the identity of the "citizen" and "customer" or of the "hero" and "mortal", and also the process of the "China dream" deployment.

Key words: Key words： Chinese film in the past 60 years; China dream; construction of citizenship; the development of new China films