Nicholas Ross SMITH

@nrsmith.bsky.social

International Relationist https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lYqvvHgAAAAJ&hl=en

I'm thinking how Zhang Yimou's 2002 film Hero, visually stunning as it is, prefigured the later rise of tianxia-ism and civilizationism under Xi. His Beijing Olympics opening ceremony is another landmark production in Chinese civilizational discourse