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The images made in China’s ethnic minority cinema are crystals whose facets are oblique mirrors that are not content with reflecting but rather constitute a prism that generates a spectrum of colors and instigates different deciphering. The PRC’s invention of ethnic minority cinema is supposed to serve as a supporting apparatus of the subjective ethnic classification project. Ethnic cinema plays more than a supporting role in the state’s vision of engineering ethnic unity. The fact should not be overlooked that its ethnic policy has had a significant cinematic dimension because it has always involved staging, making fiction, forming narratives, reframing, constructing new mise-en-scène, and creating a montage of disjointed entities. 

Ethnic minority films constitute part of the ideological reality since the whole project begins from the creative imagination as a primary mode of being. At the same time, the mundane, physical world is regarded as somewhat inadequate and secondary to be sacrificed. However, the propaganda may not necessarily perform a flawless interpellation to subject its viewers to its ideology. It could unwittingly reproduce a discursive assemblage in which ideologies of the dominant as well as the dominated are entangled in a contradictory or distorted way.