Abstract
The way Chinese media has described the Korean war can be divided into four periods considering the changes in China’s perspective on North Korea/US/South Korea, their meanings of the Korean War, their understandings of the motives for the war, and their attitudes toward sacrifice. Differences in the representations reflect changes related to China’s increasing pride in the international context. When China was in economic deprivation and a Cold War environment, its propaganda and rigid ideological beliefs were evident in its films. After reform and its opening to the world, “persuasive discourse” was introduced. Since 2000, as economic and diplomatic relations with the US have improved, the number of films dealing with the ‘war against US to aid Korea in the Korean war’decreased. After the beginning of the Xi Jinping era, China’s critical stance towards the US has been resurrected in a more sophisticated manner. However, the overall trend of film and drama through the four periods has been one where ‘individualization’ and ‘personification’ have been strongly emphasized.
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