According to the text, in China at the end of the 19th century, with the inflow of films, China well blended them with traditional opera and magic to form a unique teahouse culture, which has also become a unique means of publicizing and understanding China. At the beginning of the 20th century, China entered a turbulent period. The film not only showed the social situation at that time, but also gently showed the contradictory psychology of Chinese people excited but worried about the changes between the old and the new. While looking at the development of Japanese film, because it avoided colonial rule, the originality of its film culture is completely different from that of European and American film culture, so the development of film culture can also reveal the traces of history. Because China has been colonized and experienced the great impact of foreign culture, the development of film is like being fixed by the existing cognitive framework, and constantly hesitating to make progress in the framework, but this impact is not entirely bad. The relative compatibility of culture allows them to make progress with each other in a reasonable environment.
Nice response- you have demonstrated good contextual understanding of the sociology in China in the early 20th century and explained the hybridity of early Chinese cinema and how it is shaped by Western influences. Your example of Japan serves as a good foil to establish the distinction of this hybrid model.