Chinese cinemas (Mainland China – Taiwan)

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mardi 18 avril 2006 [n° 1195]

Premier festival de films chinois à Washington

L’actrice Zhang Ziyi dans le film
“Le secret des poignards volants“, film de Zhang Yimou, sélection officielle du festival de Cannes (2004)

Washington : un festival de films montrant l’industrie cinématographique moderne de la Chine a été lancé lundi 17 avril 2006 afin d’honorer la visite aux Etats-Unis du président chinois, Hu Jintao.

Cet événement, le premier festival de films chinois tenu à Washington, a été parrainé par l’Association du cinéma américain ( MPAA), la National Geographic Society (NGS) et l’Administration d’Etat de la Radio, du Film et de laTélévision de Chine(SARFT) sous l’égide de l’Ambassade de Chine à Washington (source : xinhuanet 2006/04/18 )

Jointly organised by the Motion Picture Association of America, the National Geographic Society and the China State Administration of Radio, Film & Television (SARFT), “China Film Festival 2006 U.S.A.” will run from April 17 to 22 in Washington DC.

China Film Festival to Open in US

Photo : Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi in the film of “House of Flying Daggers” ) by CRIEMGLISH.com reporter Shen Min
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A city of Sadness (Taiwan)

City of Sadness (Beiqing chengshi)
Taiwan, 1989

Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Hou Xiaoxian)

Distributor: Artificial Eye. Production Company: 3-H Films. An Era International Presentation. Executive Producer: H. T. Jan, Michael Yang. Producer: Qiu Fusheng. Associate Producer: Huakun. Production Managers: Tuo Zongmin, He Jingping, Xu Sixian, Wu Zhongliang.

NarratingNational Sadness: Cinematic Mapping and Hypertextual Dispersion 1

“A City of Sadness was released in the latter half of 1989, in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square government crackdown (June 4, 1989) in Beijing, and was based on a nationally traumatic historic event (the February 28, 1947 incident that ushered the era of the Kuomintang-imposed White Terror campaign of the 1950s depicted in Hou’s subsequent film, Good Men, Good Women) that was only was only made possible to be openly discussed two years earlier with the lifting of Taiwan’s 40-year martial law in 1987. The author explains:

The ‘sadness’ of the title alluded to the troubled years between the end of the Japanese occupation of Taiwan in 1945 and the official takeover by the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) of Chiang Kai-shek in 1949. Yet this ‘sadness’ has even more distant causes – the division of China and Taiwan’s progressive alienation from the mainland since the nineteenth century. And, as fate would have it, A City of Sadness reached the world at a moment when, once again, the Chinese psyche was hurting.”

Notes on BFI Modern Classics: A City of Sadness by Bérénice Reynaud

Chinese Taipei film archive

More links on chinese cinema : 2


  1. This paper by Abe Mark Nornes and Yeh Yueh-yu, is probably one of the very first hypertextual critical film texts on the web. It was published in 1995 and reworked in 1998 [back]
  2. Cinema links :
    Screening the past (www.latrobe.edu.au)
    Sense of cinema
    The Asian Cinema Studies Society web site ACSS
    A Chinese Cinema Page by Shelly Kraicer

    Mainland China a definition, Wikipedia
    [back]

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