Highlights of Multi-Ethnic Cultural Patterns——A Colorful Panorama of Present Day China A COLORFUL PANORAMA OF PRESENT DAY CHINA Chinese ethnic films in the 21st century have entered into an arena of tremendous growth and rapid development.Only once before in the Chinese film history has this ever occurred.This time was during the establishment of modern China in 1949and lasted until China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966.The films during this seventeenyear period were different from the ones of this century in that they integrated national narrative themes to unify a singular national image.In contrast,ethnic films in the new