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	Cinema of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first Chinese film, a recording of the Beijing Opera, The Battle of Dingjunshan, was made in November 1905.
		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.
		In the 1980s the film industry fell on hard times, faced with the dual problems of competition from other forms of entertainment and concern on the part of the authorities that many of the popular thriller and martial arts films were socially unacceptable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_China (2207 words)

	Wikinfo \| Film history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The quality of the films shown in New York and Berlin was extremely poor and used processes that had no lasting impact on film technology.
		However, that proved most fortituous as the sale and rental of their films on home video became a significant source of revenue for the film companies.
		Film is now (2001) in the process of making another transition, from physical film stock to digital cinema technology, driven by the availability of low cost data storage and high-resolution digital displays.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Film_history (693 words)

	Chinese Language Film History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Film arrived in China relatively early in cinema history – there are records of exhibitions in Shanghai as early as 1896, most likely in any one of the international concessions in the city.
		The 1970s improved upon the non-existant mainland Chinese film industry with a gradual opening up of the country and the enrollment of the students that would become China ’s “Fifth Generation” at the Beijing Film Academy in 1978.
		In the early 1990s, students at the Beijing Film Academy were disillusioned by the difficulties they faced getting approval from the government to make the films they wanted to make because the government still necessitates script approval and has final approval for any footage shot in the country.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /skozerow/filmhistory.htm (1978 words)

	Chinese Language Film Collection -- Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		While films from other nations were shown in China as early as 1896, China's own film industry was slow in forming.
		Three principal factors combined to bring about this era: the advent of sound film, the active participation of the Left-Wing Movement in the film industry, and the need for wartime propaganda during Japan's invasion of China's northern provinces.
		These socially conscious films were a pastiche of Hollywood and Soviet styles combined with local popular culture which resulted in a post-colonial movement that foreshadowed the Third Cinema of the 1960s.
	polaris.gseis.ucla.edu /skozerow/intro.htm (515 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Los Angeles Finds Itself
		However, that doesn’t necessarily make the film less politically sharp; read in the context of the late 1960s, early 1970s Hong Kong student movements, The Arch is a striking cinematic reflection of an ethos of cultural questioning and female awakening on the island.
		Tang’s film is most interesting in its well-timed use of quick edits, zooms, and still images to capture the mounting -- and even explosive -- sense of anxiety regarding a woman’s place at the top of the social structure but at the bottom of her own sexual freedom.
		The film is tricky in that it begins much like a Shaw Brothers wuxia film of its time: a war setting; a distant locale; a mysterious woman.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=49043 (959 words)

	Wuxia Pian
		As the leading Chinese film studio, Shaw Brothers came to dominate the wuxia genre with films that featured high-production values, elaborate sets, cinematography directly influenced by Japanese masters, and increasingly elaborate martial arts action.
		With this film's release, the wuxia pien had come full circle for Ang Lee's influences were clear, having drawn from King Hu's A Touch of Zen (1971) among other wuxia films the director recalled as a child.
		The majority of these films are inferior to their Hong Kong counterparts, with such notable exceptions as King Hu's A Touch of Zen (1971) and Joseph Kuo's Sorrowful to a Ghost (1970).
	www.kungfucinema.com /categories/wuxiapien.htm (1737 words)

	Transnational China Project Co-Sponsored Roundtable with Peggy Chiao: Contemporary Chinese Cinema
		As I said yesterday, Jia's film PLATFORM, being viewed by many Western critics as the best film over the years of Chinese film history, which I disagree, but it certainly is a brilliant film.
		For instance, the most successful film for Hou Hsiao-hsien during the '80's was a City of Sadness and it was the very first film he used a star.
		In their films you don't see any of their previous merits or previous talents and they are pretty much being absorbed by the whole system.
	www.ruf.rice.edu /~tnchina/commentary/chiaoroundtable0401.html (7814 words)

	Film Society of Lincoln Center
		A major effort of the Film Bureau of the People’s Republic in the early years was to produce “national minority” films that focused on the various non-ethnic Chinese citizens of the PRC (approximately 10% of the population).
		Chinese literature and consequently cinema are full of “comparison narratives,” parallel stories that compare the lives of relatives or friends, championing the hardworking poor over the decadent but wealthy ruling class.
		Presenting the Chinese invasion of Tibet as a humanitarian act, Serfs works the familiar theme of how the Han Chinese provide a catalyst for the various ethnic groups in China to radically reform their traditional societies, and evokes a major theme in Chinese international politics: national liberation struggles as a form of class struggle.
	filmlinc.com /wrt/programs/chinese.htm (4548 words)

	StandardNET/Standard-Examiner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Coming this semester to the Weber State University Asian Film Festival are matinee idols from China of the '40s and '50s, and a film that was banned from screening in that country.
		Also on the schedule are visits from professors of Chinese film and free screenings of films made as recently as 2003 and as long ago as 1937.
		Lewis will introduce and discuss some of the films to be screened, but most will be introduced by guests with a connection to the film or with a particular knowledge of the time and place depicted.
	www.standard.net /go.php/21347?printable=story (857 words)

	Midnight Eye book review: Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas (Poshek Fu)
		This was due to a number of factors such as the vernacular nature of its traditional culture of local opera and literature, its status as a British colony, and its geographical situation to the far south of the nation.
		By 1934 practically all films in the colony had sound, whereas in Shanghai, the process took over five years, and the switchover was not completed until 1936 (similar to Japan).
		Shanghai fell to the Japanese on November 12th, and the city became a semi-occupied "solitary island" (gudao), with tens of thousands of refugees from the mainland cramming into the ten-square miles of foreign concessions that were effectively left to run as normal despite their occupier's continuous military presence.
	www.midnighteye.com /books/between-shanghai-and-hong-kong.shtml (1782 words)

	History
		Two semesters of the history of western civilization, one course in nonwestern history, and the undergraduate research and writing seminar are required for all majors.
		Survey of seniors in history, which is given to all students in the required undergraduate research and writing seminar.
		To be eligible for distinction, a student must complete 33 hours of history courses, maintain a 3.5 average in those hours, including History 292, Historiography and Methodology and History 293, Senior Honors Thesis, and submit a thesis for judgment by a committee made up of the thesis advisor and another reader from the department.
	www.oir.uiuc.edu /assessment/plans/history.htm (3010 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Zhang, Rui
		In keeping with this reality, this dissertation approaches Feng as a special kind of film auteur whose works must be interpreted with attention to the specific social and political context of contemporary China.
		Chapter 1 provides a review of scholarship of contemporary Chinese cinema, a brief biographical sketch of Feng, and an introduction to the situation of Chinese cinema on the eve of the Tian’anmen Incident in 1989.
		Chapter 3 introduces the emergence of Feng’s New Year films against the background of increased control over film ideology in the middle of the 1990s, and a deepening industry reform oriented towards market demand.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?osu1128836737 (296 words)

	History Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Within a few years of the founding of the University of Illinois as a land-grant institution in 1867, history courses were quickly offered.
		Undergraduates are still being taught the formative ideas, structures and events in the history of Western civilization.
		It is one of the outstanding features of the department that scholars and students working on similar issues from different methodological and theoretical approaches here join together in discussion and debate.
	www.history.uiuc.edu /NewGraduateStudies/Brochure/1.html (289 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: CINEMANIC
		From November 2-13, the Harvard Film Archive is screening four films by acclaimed Chinese director Zhang Yuan, one of the leaders of the freshest talents of what critics term the "6th Generation Directors." The series will include Seventeen Years, for which he won the award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival.
		With regard to Chinese filmmakers like myself, there are two main problems: money, a problem shared by all filmmakers, but also censorship, which I face more heavily in China.
		Translator: The goal is to expose the American audience to the quality works by Chinese directors and foreign directors in general, which is the goal of the Harvard Film Archive.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=98361 (985 words)

	Georgetown University Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures -
		The Chinese major combines thorough training in spoken and written Chinese language with the development of critical approaches to a broad range of Chinese cultural phenomena including classical and modern literature, visual arts, film, popular culture, and underlying aspects of philosophical and social thought.
		Chinese majors are required to spend at least one semester studying in a Chinese-speaking country.
		The Chinese minor requires seven courses, at least six of which must be Chinese language courses or advanced courses conducted in Chinese.
	www.georgetown.edu /departments/asian/p_requir-c.htm (618 words)

	Chinese History - Academic Info
		A joint research project conducted by the Partner Group and the Chinese Academy of Sciences - Institute for the History of Natural Sciences.
		The film, which is a part of the NOVA series Secrets of Lost Empires, documents a 1999 effort by a NOVA-assembled crew of scholars and timber framers to design and build a Chinese bridge known only from an ancient painting."
		Generally, it is limited to translations that were done from the Chinese, or with the help of a Chinese version (in case of doubt they were included).
	www.academicinfo.net /chinahist.html (1050 words)

	Chinese at Kenyon
		Examples of extra- curricular activities are the film series and the weekly Chinese Tables, where students and faculty have their dinner together.
		Directed by Sang Hu, New Year Sacrifice tells a tragic story on the life of a mid-aged village woman who was widowed twice and whose last hope was shattered by the news that her son was torn apart by a group of wolves.
		Directed by Zheng Junyi, regarded as "a milestone in Chinese film history," this pre-revolution film (1949) portrays a group of characters, accurately representing various types among the working people in the lower social strata in 1949.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Mll/Chinese/chnsken.htm (2285 words)

	Chinese Film, Chinese Media, Print Culture 2
		The article argues that a very traditional Chinese view of literature as a socially embedded act of communication continued to play a significant role in both periods, and was even further enhanced through interaction with the new technologies.
		The Da Zha Lan Project (This project is about researching and filming the area of Da Zha Lan, which is a slum in Beijing.The Da Zha Lan Project is an extension of San Yuan Li (the village-in-city in Guangzhou), a project that was featured in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003.
		Zhongguo dianshi shi (The history of Chinese television).
	mclc.osu.edu /rc/filmbib2.htm (9176 words)

	CHINA BOOKS: Chinese Cinema/Film Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)*
		Interviews with nine film veterans who joined Great Wall or Feng Huang film companies in the 1950s tell the saga of how a group of filmmakers labelled left-wingers at the time, realised the ideals and expectations that they had of their country and societal developments in the course of momentous historical changes.
		Chow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a glimpse of the unique shared identity that characterises the current crop of outstanding filmmakers, such as Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou.
		The author argues that questions and debates about the status and meaning of the 'national' in 'Chinese national cinema' are central to any consideration of cinema during this period, and addresses the issue of Chinese nationalism as part of a complex history of cinema within the early modern Chinese nation.
	www.chinabooks.com.au /generalcatalogue/artfilm_2.htm (2919 words)

	UW Press: Search Books in Print
		The book analyses the wide variety of concepts of Chinese national cinema between the early years of the twentieth century and 1949, and contrasts them to concepts of national cinema in Europe.
		Hu maintains that debates and questions about the status and meaning of the 'national' in Chinese national cinema are central to any consideration of cinema during this period, and addresses the issue of Chinese nationalism as being part of the complex history of cinema in the early modern Chinese nation.
		Juibin Hu worked for the China Film Archive in Beijing for many years, and is the author of An Ideological Hisory of New China Cinema (Xin Zhongguo dianying yishixingtai shi)(Beijing: China Radio and Television Press, 1995) and co-author of Chinese Silent Film History (Zhongguo wusheng dianying shi)(Beijing: China Film Press, 1996).
	www.washington.edu /uwpress/search/books/HUJPRO.html (294 words)

	Internet Archive: Details: Master Q
		Master Q is a legend in Chinese Folk culture.
		It becomes the first 3D character animation in Chinese film history.
		Film could be good, but is in chinese..
	www.archive.org /details/MasterQ2001 (141 words)

	Amazon.com: Chinese-language Film: Historiography, Poetics, Politics: Books: Sheldon H. Lu,Emilie Yueh-Yu Yeh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		From China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong to Singapore and Hollywood, from martial arts films of the early twentieth century to Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon at the turn of the twenty-first century, Chinese-language films have opened new doors to the imaging and construction of national and ethnic identity.
		This volume, the most comprehensive work to date on Chinese film, explores the manifold dimensions of the subject and highlights areas overlooked in previous studies.
		Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh is associate professor of film studies and associate director of the David Lam Institute for East-West Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0824828690?v=glance (720 words)

	Donnie Yen Current
		Donnie attended the the Awards presentation ceremony of the 25th Hong Kong Film Awards at the Hong Kong Coliseum on 8 April, crossing the red carpet of Starlight Boulevard together with his wife Cecilia.
		SPL is voted as the one of the 10 Best Chinese Films at the 11th Golden Bauhinia Awards 2006.
		The film is scheduled to be released in theatre in July, 2006.
	www.donnieyen.com /current.htm (499 words)

	Videohound's Dragon: Asian Action & Cult Flicks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Yang's look at Chinese cinema in whole is a much needed study as it provides a broad, if not thorough picture of a film industry divided by China's turbulent war years.
		One of the earliest wuxia films cited as a major influence on that genre is Swordswoman Li Fei-fei (1925), a film shot by the Tianyi Film Company.
		While the hardships of Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese filmmakers suppressed by political censorship and Hong Kong filmmakers suppressed by organized crime and a hemorrhaging of talent in the '90s is put into view, the outlook for Chinese cinema is ultimately positive as Yang assures us that the best is yet to come.
	www.kungfucinema.com /books/onceuponatimeinchina.htm (606 words)

	Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		I think its interesting that the Communist Party of China jumped onto the idea of using film as propaganda almost as soon as the invention was introduced in China.
		Though chinese law still prohibits direct investment by foreign companies, the Chinese production companies plan to extort a loophole that would allow "partnership" with their western counterparts.
		I was again impressed by the extent to which the Chinese government has gone to "protect" its people from foreign influence- to an American, the idea of limiting the amount of foreign television, let alone arresting people for owning satellites that recieve foreign feeds, is preposterous.
	www.stanford.edu /~cmata/comm115/022002.html (185 words)

	Hollywood to Buy Chinese Film With Patriotic Theme (XINHUA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chinese campaigns early in this century against British troops invading=
		The film cost more than 15 million yuan (nearly eight million US dollars),=
		Several film companies from Britain, France and Australia are also =
	www.tibet.ca /en/wtnarchive/1997/4/28_5.html (227 words)

	Amazon.com: Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender: Books: Hsiao-Peng Lu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes (World Film & Television) by Chris Berry
		Movies About Chinese History: A list by Matthew D Kaufman
		Study Chinese Film History @ Beijing Film Academy 2006: A guide by niubi, niubi.com editor; student of contemporary china
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0824818458?v=glance (585 words)

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