Too Inhuman to Die; Too Ethereal to Become a Ghost: Children are Not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts

Ho Lok Victor Fan

Too Inhuman to Die; Too Ethereal to Become a Ghost: Children are Not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts

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This chapter offers a critical account of a docu-drama that portrays a group suicide of some ethnic left-behind children to question the dehumanisation of those unwanted others by the ruling class, which is accompanied by the bankruptcy of trust in the interdependency between photogenic reality, its authenticity, and credibility.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Shock of the Anthropocene
Subtitle of host publication	Image, Music and Text in the Age of Climate Change
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	151–76
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Too Inhuman to Die; Too Ethereal to Become a Ghost: Children are Not Afraid of Death, Children are Afraid of Ghosts

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