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	Kekexili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kekexili (Chinese: 可可西里; pinyin: Kěkěxīlǐ, from the Tibetan Hoh Xil) is an isolated region in the northwestern part of the Tibetan plateau.
		Despite the harsh climate, Kekexili is home to more than 230 species of wild animals, 20 of which are under State protection, including the wild yak, wild donkey, white-lip deer, brown bear and the endangered Tibetan antelope or chiru.
		The hitherto little-known region, as well the struggling Tibetan antelope, became household names in China upon the release of the film Kekexili: Mountain Patrol in 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kekexili (242 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
		Stillness and grit pervade Kekexili, the “last virgin wilderness in China,” a freezing, barren wasteland where comradeships are tested and the human spirit dies.
		It’s all the more tragic, then, when Lu argues the poacher’s case with nearly equal force: when Ritai instructs his men to sell some of the confiscated antelope pelts to pay his group’s medical bills, we empathize with the desperation that drives men to compromise their values.
		Bottom Line: “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” is one of the most affecting and forceful films of the last decade that a U.S. audience has had the privilege to experience.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=513323 (459 words)

	Kekexili: Mountain Patrol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Chinese: 可可西里; pinyin: Kěkěxīlǐ) is a 2004 film by Chinese director Lu Chuan (陆川) that depicts the struggle between vigilante rangers and bands of poachers in the remote Tibetan region of Kekexili (Hoh Xil).
		In Kekexili he meets Ritai (played by Tibetan actor Tobgyal, or Duo Bujie in Mandarin); Ritai is the leader of the vigilantes who, despite poverty and the lack of any government support, roam the land to protect the endangered Tibetan antelope from extinction.
		Kekexili was among the very few Mainland Chinese films to win the Golden Horse Award in Taiwan's Golden Horse Film Festival, in 2004 (another was Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun in 1996) [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kekexili:_Mountain_Patrol (518 words)

	Hong Kong Cinema - Kekexili - Monutain Patrol DVD review - Sony
		Kekexili - Mountain Patrol — Mountain Patrol is a strange case.
		Kekexili is as harsh as the unforgiving mountains where the action takes place.
		Kekexili - Mountain Patrol is a deeply impressive film, mixing authentic realism with some truly touching drama, and topping it all off with the kind of landscape photography that would make the BBC's Planet Earth team weep with envy.
	www.hkcinema.co.uk /Reviews/Kekexili_Mountain_Patrol.htm (697 words)

	Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
		The fur of the antelope was prized for its quality, and centuries of poaching was decimating the species.
		The Tibetan antelope lives Kekexili, a large reserve in China near the Tibetan border.
		Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, is a fictional account of one of these patrols.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/kekexili.html (459 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: He Said, Chi Said: Kekexili, Letters from an Unknown Woman
		Set during the mid '90s, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol tells the tale of the deadly battles waged between the poachers -- who have their sights set on Kekexili's endangered antelopes -- and the group of mountain patrolmen who'll stop at nothing to punish them.
		I think that Kekexili is, as you and Lu Chuan described it, in many ways, a "thriller." Only, instead of a thriller focusing on the chase and the payoff, it's a psychological thriller with no particular agenda in mind, except to allow us to get into the head of the captain, Ritai.
		Kekexili, like Insomnia before it, is a bit of a red herring; to me, it's not really about saving the antelopes or Tibetan virtue or even thinly veiled social protest -- it's human imperfection and the vagaries of our "chosen ones" teetering precariously in some alternate version of reality.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=23488 (2172 words)

	Rochester - Mountain Patrol: Kekexili; The Road to Guantanamo - Film - Film reviews - City Newspaper
		Written and directed by Lu Chuan, Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is based on the true story of the Wild Yak Brigade, a group of volunteers who patrolled the Tibetan plateau during the mid '90s in hopes of preventing the extinction of its indigenous antelope, also known as the chiru.
		Prized for their wool, which can only be harvested by killing the animal, the chiru population had dwindled to about 10,000 by the late '80s despite its hunting being declared illegal in the 1970s.
		The heavily armed unit heads for Kekexili, a high-altitude province in northern Tibet where the poachers are believed to be.
	www.rochester-citynews.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:4616 (889 words)

	Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2006): Reviews
		Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is a film inspired by a people's remarkable mission surrounding the illegal Tibetan antelope poaching in the region of Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China.
		Kekexili is about how human beings, when passionate about something, can put everything, including their lives, at risk for a cause.
		For all of its well-schooled orthodoxy and visual splendor, Kekexili remains somewhat off-kilter--the characters' passionate wartime camaraderie and doomed sense of martyrdom aren't quite reflected in the facts of volunteer service and devotion to a balanced ecosystem.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/kekexilimountainpatrol (896 words)

	Mountain Patrol - Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kekexili, the largest animal reserve in China, is home to many rare species, including the Tibetan antelope.
		Photographer Ga Yu arrives at the camp of the Kekexili patrolmen just as they are mourning the death of one of their members.
		Their leader, Ri Tai, is at first suspicious about Ga Yu’s presence, but when the photographer suggests that his work can help bring about their goal of creating a natural reserve for the Tibetan antelope, Ri Tai allows him to join the patrol.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /mountainpatrol/story.html (474 words)

	SF Station: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili
		Kekexili, named after a Himalayan region particularly hard-hit by rampant poaching in the mid-90s, tells the story of Ga Yu (Zhang Lei), a Beijing reporter who joins a band of grizzled patrollers as they set out on an unforgiving search for hunters.
		There are few live antelope on display in Kekexili, undoubtedly because poachers had so drastically reduced their population by the time Ga Yu traveled to Tibet in 1996.
		But Lu doesn't stress the point so much that his film turns into a preachy indictment of the poachers, who are largely portrayed as victims of poverty willing to sacrifice their ethics for the opportunity to survive.
	www.sfstation.com /mountain-patrol-kekexili-a1906 (393 words)

	Kekexili uninhabited zone to open to tourists
		With this in-depth travel to Kekexili named "Enter Kekexili and Protect the Green River Source," tourists will have a chance to go deep inside the Kekexili uninhabited zone by a 4WD jeep and visit the rare and precious wildlife such as chiru.
		According to Li Jinmao, deputy-chairman of China Association of Travel Services and general manager of Guangdong CITS Co., Ltd, Kekexili uninhabited zone is the largest one in China and the third largest in the world.
		Kekexili's door will be closed shortly after its first, and probably the last opening to the public.
	www.chinanews.cn /news/2004/2005-06-01/5285.shtml (230 words)

	\|\| easternKicks.com - Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2) \|\|
		Lu Chuan's Kekexili: Mountain Patrol was another movie that fell through the cracks.
		Kekexili is a thought provoking, beautiful film, well deserving of this wider theatrical release.
		Kekexili: Mountain Patrol will be released by Axiom Films at cinemas arong the UK on 29 September.
	www.easternkicks.com /films/kekexili_2.htm (580 words)

	Independent Weekly: Film: Features/ Reviews: The snows of Kekexili
		This tale of a group of volunteer Tibetan conservationists in armed conflict against the poachers who threaten the Tibet antelope herds is a breathtaking trip into one of the world's least habitable regions.
		Lu Chuan's film, set in Kekexili, the high plateau shared (or disputed) by Tibet and China, is no kid-friendly outing akin to the marching penguins.
		The leader of the Kekexili Patrol is Capt. Ri Tai (Duo Bujie), and he's initially suspicious of the journalist until the latter points out that the publicity could help raise awareness of the poaching problem.
	www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:33477 (1213 words)

	'Mountain Patrol: Kekexili' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Kekexili is more than one of the most remote and starkly beautiful locations on Earth.
		Because their coats are exceptionally soft, the animals have been the targets of poachers so successful that by the 1990s the antelope population had declined from an estimated 1 million to 10,000.
		But Kekexili is such a brutal, unforgiving place that it doesn't allow any film shot there to hold on to its innocence.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/turan/cl-et-patrol14apr14,0,7759725.story (535 words)

	Kekexili:La patrouille sauvage ,2004 Chine
		KEKEXILI, LA PATROUILLE SAUVAGE est la chronique de la lutte entre ces volontaires et les braconniers à 5000 m d’altitude sur les plateaux du Qinghai et du Tibet, parfois au prix de leur propre vie.
		Kekexili est le dernier refuge spirituel des tibétains.
		Le gouvernement a proclamé Kekexili zone nationale protégée et y a envoyé des gardes forestiers.
	www.cinempire.com /films/kekexili/fiche.html (1936 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Movies
		Set in the wind-scoured, frozen high-altitude environs of Tibet, "Kekexili" tracks the titular mountain patrol - a ragtag, underfunded band of volunteers - as it roves the vast, unmarked terrain in search of well-armed poachers hunting the endangered Tibetan antelope.
		A remarkably nuanced film, "Kekexili" condemns the poachers for their wholesale slaughter of antelope - the herds mowed down with automatic weapons from all-terrain vehicles - and implicitly decries the fashion market that values the wool and makes the killing so lucrative.
		What "Kekexili" offers instead, and in abundance, is the austere beauty of the landscape and the escalating thrill of the chase.
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/reviews.nsf/movie/story/EA73AD524CC0566D86257187006C9D10?OpenDocument (351 words)

	Mountain Patrol: Kekexili Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Chinese filmmaker Lu Chuan's spellbinding film transports you to Kekexili animal reserve in China, where a volunteer band of Tibetans risks life and limb to protect the endangered Tibetan antelope from poachers.
		Until the mid-1980s, an estimated one million Tibetan antelope, or chiru, roamed Kekexili on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, known throughout the region as "the roof of the world." Less than a decade later, however, the chiru numbers had dwindled to less than 10,000, due to rampant poaching (animal lovers be warned: the poaching footage is graphic).
		Thus begins the patrol's extraordinary odyssey into the vast reaches of Kekexili, where their hunt for poachers gradually turns into a fight for survival under the most inhumane conditions imaginable.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=141904&LF=HP (720 words)

	Firecracker \| Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The stakes are high: we open the movie with the escalation of tensions between the patrol and the poachers clear, as a lone patrolman is surrounded in his jeep and shot dead.
		Convincing gruff patrol leader Ri Tai (Duo Bujie) that an article in the national press might help create an official reserve in Kekexili, Ga Yu joins the patrol as they set out on one of their forays into the wilds, warming immediately to a group who have forged a strong bond of brotherhood.
		Lu brings the intense cold to finger-tingling life, and the constant whine of wind over the tundra creeps beneath your skin planting a chill that doesn’t shift until you leave the cinema.
	www.firecracker-media.com /issue04/i_review01.shtml (620 words)

	Kekexili Mountain Patrol
		Movies like Kekexili feel real rather than manufactured because you see people who are so busy doing what needs to be done that they have no time for the swaggering and the posturing that so-called “heroes” in American movies exhibit (Miami Vice comes to mind).
		In Kekexili, a reporter based in Beijing is sent to Tibet to report on the activities of a patrol group dedicated to saving Tibetan antelopes.
		Kekexili is based on true events, and it feels like a documentary, in part because this environment feels so alien to people who’ve never been to Tibet.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews24/Kekexili.htm (1261 words)

	This Week's Attractions: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (Seattle Weekly)
		Kekexili is a nature preserve some three to four miles above sea level.
		The region's indigenous antelope are being slaughtered by poachers, guts tossed in the dust for vultures to eat, the pelts brought to market for sweaters worn in faraway Beijing.
		Mountain Patrol: Kekexili — Tibetans versus poachers, in a land where human life is cheaper than an antelope pelt.
	www.seattleweekly.com /film/0618/mountain.php (634 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
		This conflict, as Kekexili: Mountain Patrol will reveal, is one that is fraught with hypocrisy and compromise, meaning the story understands how people truthfully negotiate life.
		It is across the Kekexili region's terrain that Ritai and his patrolmen chase after the seemingly phantom-like poachers that hunt the Himalayan antelope; that we see so little of these creatures not only suggests their decimation but something more deeply profound: the landscape's own spiritual weakening.
		Lu is a stunning visual storyteller—so good, in fact, that we could probably do without the attention paid to repetitious plot and dialogue, which offsets the mysticism of the images.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2047 (272 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Kekexili: Mountain Patrol \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		The best moments in "Kekexili: Mountain Patrol" come when the filmmakers let the pictures do more talking than the characters.
		After all, the pictures in question include glimpses of the breathtaking scenery in Kekexili, a remote region in Tibet that remains mostly unspoiled by mankind.
		"Kekexili: Mountain Patrol" is not rated but would probably receive an R for some strong violence (animal abuse, shootings and beatings), some animal gore, a brief torture scene, scattered use of strong sexual profanity, some brief drug content (hypodermic needle use), and some brief sexual contact.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,425000885,00.html (316 words)

	The Mountain Patrol: Kekexili, Knickerbocker / July 2006 / Campus Calendar / Hope - Hope College
		The Mountain Patrol: Kekexili,” a National Geographic film running Friday and Saturday, July 21-22, and Monday-Friday, July 24-28, at 7 p.m.
		With the antelope prized for its skin, which is used in making luxurious, albeit illegal, shahtoosh scarves, its numbers have been dwindling drastically in the past 20 years as poachers slaughter the animals, often hundreds at a time.
		In the 1990s local Tibetans formed a volunteer patrol to try to stop the illegal poaching—sometimes at the cost of their own lives.
	www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/10171 (160 words)

	Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes \| 'Mountain Patrol: Kekexili'
		THE HIGH PLAINS of Kekexili, 4 miles high on the shoulders of the Himalayas, form the background for the extraordinary action film Mountain Patrol: Kekexili.
		The Kekexili is supposed to be so vast that it is possible to be the first person to leave your footprint there.
		Mountain Patrol: Kekexili shows its integrity in the suddenness of an ambush and during a foot chase between two staggering men, both near collapse from altitude sickness.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/04.19.06/kekexili-0616.html (923 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Locked and Loaded: the Imperturbable Lu Chuan
		Already heralded as one of China's new-gen visionaries, filmmaker Lu Chuan's latest opus is "Kekexili: Mountain Patrol," the stirring, harrowing account of the titanic struggle between Kekexili's patrolmen and poachers.
		With Kekexili, last year in China, it was number one in DVD sales -- but a lot of this was accomplished through piracy, so production lost a lot of revenue.
		When I went to Kekexili, it was a very affecting experience -- seeing all the antelope carcasses, vultures circling around -- but we're mostly viewing the situation from an outsider's perspective.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=23490 (1729 words)

	Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol
		One of those films that opens eyes to distant lands and problems and yet carries a sense of drama and a humane moral tone that conveys an appeal that's simultaneously exotic and universal.
		Since Lu depicts the punishing, unforgiving determination on both sides of the conflict, the film is not entirely pitiless for the pathetic criminal class.
		Based on depressingly true events, Mountain Patrol: Kekexili tracks the heroic efforts of a small group of Tibetans struggling to keep the Tibetan antelope from extinction.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/kekexili (1115 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		To save the endangered Tibetan antelope, whose pelts were so prized by silly women that their population was reduced in the 1990s from millions to thousands.
		In a strange way, the patrol and the poachers feel a bond; they are the only humans on this high plateau, both drawn there by a fascination for the antelope, and they share an existence no one else knows.
		It is conventional to speak of the beauty of a vast unspoiled wilderness, but the Kekexili is not where you would choose to live for three years.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060504/REVIEWS/605040302/1023 (754 words)

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