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	riverfronttimes.com \| Film \| THE KING OF MASKS
		Born in 1939, Wu is old enough to have started his film career in the early 1960s; he was accepted as part of the fifth class of the Beijing Film Academy.
		After that success, Wu was made head of Xi'an Studios, where he opened the doors to a new crop of young filmmakers — the first class to graduate from the Beijing Film Academy since before the Cultural Revolution.
		Wu was in the U.S. as a visiting scholar during the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989.
	www.riverfronttimes.com /Issues/1999-07-21/film/film2.html (796 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - King of Masks Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An award winner at the Tokyo film festival as well as at Chinese festivals, Wu Tianming's essay in Confucianism is a celebrated work in a remarkable career.
		Wu Tianming owns an enviable career in both the art cinema and the mainstream film industry, a measure of his ability to tap broadly felt sentiments in ways that are narratively and stylistically challenging.
		However ambivalent he was about his return, Wu Tianming's homecoming was welcomed by a nation whose moviegoing populace rightly regard him as a treasured interpreter of their unique past.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/fns00n11.html (482 words)

	Bolinas: Art and Activism
		As for Wu Tianming, he has not only directed good movies, but also as head of the Xi'an Film Studio provided opportunities and a base for the artists.
		WU While sitting here I've tried to remember how I got caught up in the arts scene in the first place.
		WU I don't think the nexus between art and politics is something from which we can easily extricate ourselves.
	www.tsquare.tv /film/Bolinas7lee.html (9377 words)

	Biography of Zhang Yimou
		Wu devices the strategy of funding their experimental art films with profits made from popular commercial works.
		The film was made under the auspices of the Xian Film Studio, and in the studio head, Wu Tianming, Fifth Generation film makers found a daring and enlightened champion.
		Wu Tianming, head of the Xian Studio, is out of the country but publicly condemns the government.
	home.nikocity.de /fabianweb/biograp.htm (762 words)

	ReelTime -- Dispatches' Movie Site
		Not rated (1996) In this award-winning drama from revered Chinese director Wu Tianming, an aging street performer (Zhu Xu) tries to adopt a boy who can carry on his traditional art, but ends up with a “worthless” girl (Zhou Ren-ying).
		Chinese filmmaker Wu Tianming is known for his outspoken political views and support of the progressive ``Fifth Generation'' of directors in his native country.
		Director Wu's sentimentality is mature and complex, like that of François Truffaut at his most unguarded.
	regulus.azstarnet.com /movies/reviews/thekingo_review.htm (659 words)

	DAILY BRIEFS: Chinese Director Returns; Greek and Balkan Film in NYC
		Wu's earlier award-winning film "The Old Well" (1986) starred current Cannes rabble-rouser Zhang Yimou, who "withdrew" two films from Cannes, claiming a tendency of international festivals and viewers to evaluate Chinese films based only on their political content.
		Wu Tianming's eight year hiatus from filmmaking and five year sojourn in the United States (during which he ran a Los Angeles video store and claims to have watched over 900 Hollywood films) make him particularly well situated to observe the changes in the Chinese film industry.
		In an interview with indieWIRE, Wu revealed that China's economic reform and open door policy have changed the Chinese film industry as much as they've changed the rest of Chinese life.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_990428_briefs.html (550 words)

	The King of Masks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Especially here, where it's pulled off with such restraint and tasteful aplomb by the old trouper Wu, and with a monkey and a quasi-feminist subtext tossed in for good measure.
		As much as one tries to resist, little Doggie's tears at the riverside and old Wang's general mien of long-suffering resignation evoke pathos, particularly given the director's touches of earthy humor and his elegant eye.
		The head of the Chinese studio that gave a start to the so-called Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers (superstars like Zhang Yimou and Chen), Wu began a five-year sojourn in the US in 1989 after Tiananmen Square, supporting himself with academic work and by running a video store.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/06/03/THE_KING_OF_MASKS.html (745 words)

	Wu Tianming Biography :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		With governmental regulations and censorship loosening, Wu was able to foster a creative environment for "Fifth Generation" directors, many of whom explored the hardships of peasant life in a less melodramatic manner.
		Wu's films from this period, "Life" (1984), which was not released internationally, and "Old Well" (1986) earned praise.
		Despite his renown, Wu found his financial status compromised and once his wife and daughter joined him in California, opened a video rental store as a means of support.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/1116886 (988 words)

	The Net Net: WatchMe
		For those of you who go out on a limb and pick this one up, you'll be rewarded with a wonderful period piece that works on almost all levels and will leave you choked up and teary eyed by the time the closing credits appear.
		Chinese director Wu Tianming's film examines life in a particular part of China during the 1930s.
		Not only does director Wu Tianming do a great job of setting the mood of the times, but Wei Minglung's screenplay delivers a story about love and bonding that will make you shed a tear and rejoice as well.
	www.thenetnet.com /watchme/masks.html (862 words)

	Love Battles Tradition in `King of Masks' / Artist and child find each other in moving Chinese tale
		Chinese director Wu Tianming gets to the heart of loneliness -- and of art -- in his powerful film ``The King of Masks,'' opening today at the Clay.
		Viewers of all ages will love how Wu (``The Old Well''), in his first movie in a decade, envisions loneliness and art as concerns of both young and old and weaves these themes into the vision of a touching meeting of lost souls.
		With unusual tenderness, this film explores how an old man who desperately needs someone in his life, and a child who longs for home and compassion, form a relationship in a society that seems cold to their needs.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1999/04/16/DD5964.DTL (599 words)

	Taoism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The two principles of Non-being (wu) and Being (you) are contained within it.
		Yet the Dao, in spite of its being "indistinct and vague" (huanghu), contains an "essence" (jing) that is the seed of the world of multiplicity (21).
		Based on the notion that the emperor symbolized and guaranteed the balance between Heaven and Earth, the weakening of political power at the end of the Han, and the concurrent natural disasters and social unrest, were deemed to reflect a rupture between the supernatural and the human world.
	www.stanford.edu /~pregadio/daozang/taoism_intro.html (4323 words)

	Tian-Ming Wu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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	Wu Tianming
		A central figure of China's "Fifth Generation" filmmakers, Wu Tianming was named head of Xi'an Studios in 1984 and backed two of the group's most prominent and impressive works; Zhang Yimou's "Red Sorghum" (1987) and Chen Kaige's "King of the Children" (1988).
		Wu has himself directed several films, notably "Old Well" (1987), which won the grand prize at the 2nd Tokyo International Film Festival and "The King of Masks" (1996), a tender and touching tale following the relationship between a crusty street performer and the young girl he adopts....
		The King of Masks - (Director / 1999 / Released / Samuel Goldwyn Company)
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/id/1116886 (192 words)

	Wu Tianming
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	Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Cinéma chinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dans les années 1960, il a gagné en popularité à travers le monde, notamment grâce aux films policiers et aux films de Wu Xia Pian.
		Jia Zhang-Ke (Xiao Wu, Artisan Pickpoket, Platform, Plaisirs inconnus...
		Lik Wai Yu (Love will tear us apart)
	www.encyclopedie.cc /Cin%c3%a9ma_chinois (443 words)

	movieSville 1401706: The King of Masks (Wu TianMing) DVD
		Tian-Ming Wu Lucas - International Festival of Films for Children and Young People
		Tian-Ming Wu Street Date : May 16 2005
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	Chinese Film, Chinese Media, Print Culture 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wu Si yilai dianying juben xuanji (Selections of films scripts from the May Fourth on).
		"Facing Reality: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism." In Wu Hung, ed., The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000).
		"Just on the Road: A Description of the Individual Way of Recording Images in the 1990s." In Wu Hung, ed., The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000).
	mclc.osu.edu /rc/filmbib2.htm (9086 words)

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