...The history of Chinese film has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. The cinema of Mainland China after 1949 has grown up somewhat suppressed by the Communist regime until now. The Beginnings: Shanghai as the Center Motion pictures were introduced to China in 1896. The first recorded screening of a motion picture in China occurred in Shanghai on August 11, 1896, as an "act" on a variety bill. The first Chinese film, a recording of the Beijing Opera, The Battle of Dingjunshan(汉中之战）, was made in November 1905. For the next ten years the production companies were mainly foreign-owned, and the domestic film industry did not start in earnest until 1916, centering around Shanghai, a thriving entrepot center and the largest city in the Far East. During the 1920s, film technicians from the United States trained Chinese technicians in Shanghai, and American influence continued to be felt there for the next two decades. The first truly important Chinese films were produced starting from the 1930s, when the "progressive" or "left-wing" films were made, like Cheng Bugao's Spring Silkworms (1933), Sun Yu's The Big Road (1935), and Wu Yonggang's The Goddess (1934). During this time the Kuomintang struggled for power and control over the major studios, and their influence can be seen in the ensuing films produced. The post-1930 era is called the first "golden period" of Chinese cinema, where several talented directors appeared...
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...A Reflection on the two Chinese films ‘Together’ and ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’ Mainland China’s Together tells the story of a young boy named Xiaochun who happens to be a brilliant violinist, and the sacrifices that he and his father had to make in pursuit of his musical success. On the other hand, Taiwan’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman revolves on the relationship of an elderly master chef with his three grown-up daughters. These are two films which tackle how Chinese people interact and relate to one another as members of one family while pursuing their own personal goals in life. Both films exhibit the Chinese people’s love for the arts, such as music and cuisine, and their usually unspoken concern for their loved ones. Such emotions are contained by the person because expressing them may be taken as a sign of exposing or revealing one’s vulnerable side; basically, a sign of weakness. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman has a delightful take on the dynamics of a modern-day Chinese family. Despite having three daughters, the aging master chef Tao Chu finds himself managing a household that’s anything but submissive. The three women have developed very different personalities, and all are pursuing different careers in the industry – the only time that they will all come together is during the Sunday ritual dinner wherein their father will prepare several dishes for them to share. During the first half of the movie, Chu was portrayed to have lost his sense of taste, thus resulting in very...
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...FILM 3759G Dr. Christopher J Mitchell Chengdong Hu Analysis of Cultural Denotation and Humanity in Ang Lee’s Films Ang Lee’s film works, not only in the business, but in artistic level won the world audience recognition. He grew up in a traditional Chinese family and study in the United States. The differences between eastern and western culture took a sharp collision in his heart, and it revealed without hiding in his movie and finally become his own unique aesthetic features. This article try to read Lee’s creative thought and artistic style through analysis and research of Lee’s special culture background master’s creative ideas, and learn more about the human temperament of the director which is full glory of human nature. First, this article will introduce about Ang Lee’s growing environment and studying experiences, in order to analysis the formation of his Chinese and Western characteristics. Secondly, through multiple films, the article would analysis of the impact of the East-West cultural collision and merger. Furthermore, a comprehensive interpretation of Ang’s unique film elements and the traits would be expounded. Abstract Ang Lee, Taiwan filmmaker, however, doesn’t have the same characteristics with other Taiwan film makers. He is like a movie ranger, with no specific cultural identity, however, simultaneously, it could be find a certain kind of familiar cultural identity on him, especially in his...
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...Iron Road Film Review Iron is a Canada and China film (2009) that is written by Barry Pearson and Raymond storey in 2009. The film was directed by David Wu. The starring are Sun Li, Sam Neill, Luke Macfarlane, Charlotte Sullivan and Peter O’Toole. Iron Road is romantic and upset story which is about Chinese workers were helped to build the Chadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s. And this drama gives a face to the nameless and voiceless that perished en mass in history. Iron Road follows the journey, in 1882; James Nichol went to Hong Kong to check on the company’s recruitment of Chinese laborers to work on the railroad's construction. One of the laborers James brings back was an orphan boy named Little Tiger, who actually was a young woman and a good blasting worker. She was desperate to make it to Canada to find her missing father. Personally, Little Tiger falls in love with James, an unforbidden love even if she exposes her true identity to him because of their race differences. Ultimately, Little Tiger bring her father’s ashes back to China and leaves the railway construction camp; also she had a profound effect on her new Canadian friend. The background music throughout the film gives the viewer a sad feeling. It indicates how strong James and little tigers relationship are. I think that the instrumental sound effects were really cool when little tiger uses explosives to destroy the mine. The sounds give the audience a realistic feeling. The theme of the film is racism...
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...Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung and Stijn Reijnders Tourist Studies 2013 13: 287 originally published online 30 August 2013 DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 The online version of this article can be found at: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Tourist Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://tou.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://tou.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://tou.sagepub.com/content/13/3/287.refs.html >> Version of Record - Nov 18, 2013 OnlineFirst Version of Record - Aug 30, 2013 What is This? Downloaded from tou.sagepub.com at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on January 5, 2014 498164 2013 TOU13310.1177/1468797613498164Tourist StudiesDung and Reijnders ts Article Paris offscreen: Chinese tourists in cinematic Paris Yun-An Olivia Dung Stijn Reijnders Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Tourist Studies 13(3) 287–303 © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468797613498164 tou.sagepub.com Leiden University, The Netherlands Abstract This article examines from a European-Asian perspective the relationship between media representations and the tourist’s imagination. We use the case of Chinese tourists in...
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...Name Course Tutor Date Honor of Chinese culture in film. The Hero is a Chinese film based in Hong Kong China, and it is entirely a wuxia film. It is a martial art film, and it depicts the Chinese culture and unity. The king in the film is trying to bring together warring kingdoms and also come up with a standard Chinese language among the variations. There is a conflict depicted in the film that of who to trust. The king is almost lured to believe an assassin who finally forgives the king. There is an excellent use of flashbacks in the film hence making it a narration film as most of the stories narrated, and flashback is used. Most of the fights shown in flashbacks where nameless and the king of Qin are conversing at the palace. Hero is filming that entirely depicts the ancient Chinese culture and uses visual designs in a relevant way. The film uses the fascist aesthetics that represents authoritarianism. The film represents the Chinese culture in a number of ways. It does not concentrate on the multiculturalism as other Chinese films could do. First, the movie shows the Chinese culture in the form of leadership. At the beginning of the film, the narrator tells of ancient China being a kingdom ruled by kings, and initially it was made up of seven kingdoms. The film also shows the ancient Chinese leadership to have had many wars. It was during this wars that the parents of nameless (jet li) were killed making him come for revenge in the palace. The evidence is when the king...
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...“LAST TRAIN HOME” A CASE STUDY OF THE CHINESE RURAL MIGRANT WORKER Introduction China's massive population has always been a major difficulty for the government as it has struggled to provide for it. The major economic changes of China in the last decade have brought on new and different economic and social challenges. Some of these issues are depicted in the documentary film “Last Train to China.” The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of these points that the film brings to light and see how they affect China today. Media reports on social and economic conditions in China present a contradictory picture. The cliché that hundreds of millions of people have been 'lifted out of poverty' is repeated again and again, alongside lurid accounts of worsening social problems which threaten to engulf the country in conflict. Both of these claims have a basis in fact. Most people, not only the rising class of millionaires, have gained materially as a result of China's huge increase in GDP. However, because of the increased role of the influence of the market and the breakdown of socialist institutions, this added wealth has been accompanied by many damaging effects such as mass unemployment, inhumane and dangerous working conditions, and inadequate health care. Some of these effects and the consequent breakdown of the traditional Chinese social structures, especially in the rural areas are seen in real life in the “Last Train”, and will be analyzed in this paper. ...
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...there is one thing still stay in Chinese culture through thousands of Chinese history – that is Confucianism. To publicity Confucianism, the director filmed the Confucius. The film begins with Confucius as an old man, thinking back. Then the film go to early 50s, Confucius were promoted from mayor to minister for law in his home state of Lu. He tries to save a slave’s life from the institution that buried alive for former master or great people who has just died. Because of various reasons and framing from the state of Qi, he becomes a wandering scholar. After many hardships and losses, he is invited back when he is an old man. The 2008 Olympic opening ceremony began with a popular quote from Confucius among the Chinese that, “It is a great pleasure to have friends come to visit from afar.” The thousand of performers in the ceremony adorned themselves in a way that resembled the disciples of Confucius and this confirmed that Confucius is a popular individual among the Chinese. The film Confucius was, thus, created to describe the life and triumphs of this great philosopher who lived between 479 and 552 BC. Confucius happens to be arguably one of the most prominent personalities in the Chinese history from his great teachings which have continued to exert immense influence on society in contemporary China. This film is a 2010 production that describes the biographical drama of China that gives an in-depth-understanding of Chinese history. The film starts with Confucius in his old...
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...Extra Credit: Electric Shadows Reflection The film makes me recall my childhood and my parents’ childhood. It descried a story in a town of Northwest China happened between 1970s and 1980s. At that time, people could only watch the outdoor movie that cemented by celluloid. This film covers the family love, romantic love between two generations and friendship. Also, it gives me a strong feeling of how the Chinese cultural revolution have changed the people’s lives and ideas. From what I learned from the “brief history of China” and Spence’s “the search for modern China”, Mao wanted and desired equal outcomes for all people. Even though the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution caused millions deaths, and it was a miserable failure; it brought fundamental changes to China such as family structure, rural people’s immigration, landscape and so on (Spence & “Brief Story of China”). As shown in the film, the first obvious change is technology. During the Ling Ling’s mother wedding day, there was a small black-white TV as a wedding gift. Everybody were interested in the TV because it was the first time they saw a TV. Later on, the stage of playing celluloid movie was destroyed because everybody were start watching movies at home (Xiao). I felt sad when I saw the scene. I remembered I saw the outdoor celluloid movie when I was young. Me and other kids came very early and sat on the first row. Even though the comfortable chairs were provided, we had no worries of sitting...
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...journey and no matter what the purpose is for their journey, in the end the heroes or in this case heroine, share the same destination. It does not matter if the hero gains a kingdom or returns home with the elixir, as mythologist Alexander Eliot puts it, “he actually earns self-integration, balance, wisdom, and spiritual health” (Kurtti 1998: 11). One of the most renowned and beloved of these “wandering heroes” says Kurtti, is a young woman named Mulan. It is a story that is well known in China and has been told from generation to generation. “Mulan” is a Disney animated film based on an ancient Chinese folktale about a brave young woman who is faced with the terrible dilemmas of war during ancient China. She is not like any of the other Disney heroines, such as Cinderella or Ariel from the “Little Mermaid”. You do not see her daydreaming or looking for her “Prince Charming” in the film. All she wanted to do was to please and honor her family. But every time she tried, it seemed as though she was destined to fail. She also had one simple motivation and that was to save her father from having to serve in the Imperial Army. So when the emperor sent his orders to the people of China that each family must send one male to serve in the army, Mulan fears for the worst. Since she is the only child, the Fa family has no choice but to send the patriarch of the family, Fa Zhou. Now Mulan is faced with the reality that her father must go off to fight in this war. She fears...
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...This part of the test will evaluate a candidate’s ability to recognize and use English Grammatical Structures. Each question is part of a dialogue which is missing a word or groups of words followed by four choices which may be used to complete the incomplete dialogue. The examinee will choose the option which is best suited for the conversation. For example: 1. Would you like to go to the movies tonight? “Yes, but I am ______tired to have a good time. a. So much b. Too c. Very d. Most 2. “Hasan knows how to speak in Hindi, Urdu and Tamil.” “Really! I didn’t know that he _____ Tamil.” A. speak B. tells C. spoked. D. spoke 3. “Is that your Uncle Carlos on the phone?” “Yes, do you____ talk with him.” a. Wanted to b. Wants c. Want to d. Wanting to 4. “Isn’t that Mathew Kennedy?” I think you are _______, I think it’s Paul Kennedy his younger brother. a. Mistook b. Mistaken c. Being mistake d. Being mistaken. 5. “Robert ruined his camera when he tried to fix it himself.” “It was not wise ________to fix it.” a. him to try b. that he tries c. of him tried d. of him to try. 6. “Why don’t you like the new staff?” “__________ annoys me.” a. Her complains b. She complains c. She complained d. Her complaining. Part II Vocabulary You will find two types of vocabulary items in this test. In the first type you will be given a sentence followed by four words or phrases. You are to find the word or phrase that is the most similar in meaning to the underlined...
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...has a rapidly growing economy (Doh & Luthans, 2012). One would think that their dual status as it pertains to both communism and capitalism would be a deterrent to doing business in the People’s Republic of China, and in many cases cease long term global integration into China’s market, this has not occurred and probably won’t because the results of expanding in the Chinese market out weighs the challenges that are met. Continued forecast and optimistic projections still make doing business in China favorable and the most viable option to remain competitive in today’s global economy. The key to success or failure when entering a foreign market consist of careful examination, and identification of all potential problems regarding an organization’s culture, economic environment, political risks and social climate. Additionally, a comprehensive strategy has to be in place to overcome objections and make adjustments. Understanding the differences from a political, economical, social and cultural aspect as well as the ability to respond to different national standards and regulations are key factors. The Chinese Culture Culture is defined as the sum total of beliefs, rules, techniques, institutions, and artifices that characterize human populations. Actually, there are multiple ways in which culture is defined because culture has so many different and inter-related meanings. The most common definition of culture is the shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize...
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...Released on the 30th January 2014, a film by the name of “The Journey” was released. According to the lunar calendar of the Chinese culture, the released date is the eve of Chinese New year. Chiu Keng Guan, who directed this Malaysian Chinese production has received a number of feedback from the audience. The plot of this film is based on Malaysian culture which consists of multiple race of Malaysia and intercultural relation. The Journey tells a story where the main actress, Joanne Yew (Bee) returns home after further educating studies at England returns home to her widower father, Frankie Lee Sai Peng (Uncle Chuan) with her fiancé Ben Pfeifer (Benji) seeking for her father’s blessing. This movie tells a story of how Benji and Uncle Chuan encounter language barriers and also cultural differences. Despite that Uncle Chuan had reluctantly allowing them to get married, the remarkable journey of how both of them hand-deliver wedding card invitation to Uncle Chuan’s childhood friends throughout the peninsular Malaysia. From this movie, the first portrayal of a strong culture comes from Uncle Chuan, an Asian Chinese father despite being strict, unable to express their feelings and so on. As to Benji, raised in England with a different culture and also a childish behavior making it hard for Uncle Chuan to accept a different culture. In this movie, Chinese traditions and the cultures is strongly portrayed. For example, according to the culture, hand-delivering wedding invitation cards...
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...tại Việt Nam, chúng tôi khuyên các bạn nên mua cuốn sách này để sử dụng, nhằm tôn trọng giá trị của cuốn sách này, cũng như tôn trọng tác quyền của tác giả cũng như nhà xuất bản. Chúng tôi gõ lại cuốn sách này nhằm mục đích duy nhất là để học tập, nghiên cứu, không hề mang bất cứ mục đích kinh doanh nào. Mọi hành động thương mại liên quan tới bản gõ lại này là không hề liên quan tới chúng tôi. Mong các bạn tôn trọng tác giả và tôn trọng ý muốn của chúng tôi. Trong quá trình gõ và biên tập, do trình độ không chuyên, không thể tránh khỏi có sai sót. Xin cảm ơn, chúc các bạn học tốt. 1 Mat Clark – IELTS Speaking IELTS SPEAKING – MAT CLARK Preface During my 5 years as an IELTS examiner in China, I have seen thousands of Chinese IELTS candidates perform OK in the speaking interview. Most people would agree that an OK score in speaking is 5 or 6. Many students now realize that a score of 5 or 6 for speaking is not enough for their study requirements and this is why I wrote this book. Many students spend months preparing for the IELTS speaking test and still find it difficult to score 7 or higher. In fact some candidates actually score lower than they potentially could have scored. There are a few reasons behind this poor performance and these will be discussed in detail throughout this book, but one major factor is the lack of...
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...There have 10 problems in Chinese students in EASB. 1.Too easy to believe others When confronted with a stranger knocked on the door, the Chinese students did think about it will open the door, or to the need to help others, when Chinese students are willing to help. 2.Lack of protection awareness Nap or night time shut doors and windows do not understand, or do not pay attention when walking their behavior. 3.Poor interpersonal relationships Chinese habits of other countries to measure habits 4.Too simple Intelligence Structure of Chinese students or people doing things, and even ideas are too simple, is learning to learn, and strive to improve performance, but it ignores how to deal with overly complex. 5.Lack of knowledge of life Contemporary Chinese college students is not a headache future work, but most of their current relationships headache 6.Relatively weak In the face of things also chose this way, they try to escape. 7.Racial discrimination Although they sometimes lips do not say, but the heart is there some kind of color prejudice. 8.Indecent demeanor Chinese people's habits are talking loudly, indiscriminate sitting, garbage litter, or is this kind of bad habits. 9.Lack of artistic accomplishment Chinese students in addition to the book knowledge, the other a lack of knowledge of the content structure and do not understand art film sports, this simple knowledge of the school, not likable. 10.Lack of unity They think and fellow citizens to live...
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