‘Little by little, the truth is being discovered’: the archive rescuing China’s forbidden films

On the wall of an unassuming second-floor room in Newcastle University sits a map, Blu-Tacked, unframed. At first glance it looks like any other map of China. But on closer inspection, the cities labelled on the map are not just the major urban centres. They are the places that have hosted important film festivals over the years, the details of which are annotated in colour-coded text.Covering