Red Cherry(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Coached by her companion Luo Xiaoman (a coltish and moody Xu Xiaoli), the doll-like girl recites a rote and fictional life story to the assembled students and staffs.
Chuchu and Xiaoman are linked in complementary tales of powerlessness: while she is held prisoner by the Nazis, he attempts to join the military but is instead evacuated to the frozen streets of Moscow to scrounge with other urchins.
Xiaoman's fictions are a solace to those without any other and a weapon for those without power.
Review: The Blue Kite(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
The narrator of The Blue Kite is Tietou (played by Yi Tian as an infant, Zhang Wenyao as a young boy, and Chen Xiaoman as an adolescent), whose 1953 birth occurs early in the film.
His parents, librarian Shalong (Pu Quanxin) and teacher Shujuan (Lu Liping), are supporters of the Maoist revolution, but that doesn't prevent Shalong from being accused of counterrevolutionary activities and sent off a labor camp, where a tree falls on him and kills him.
The acting by the principles, especially that of Chen Xiaoman and Lu Liping, is superb.
Cellphone messages assure parents(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Before Ye Xiaoman entered school on Friday morning, she placed her finger on an infrared scanner at the entrance gate.
Within seconds, a computer connected to the scanner sent a mobile phone message to her parents: "Your child, Ye Xiaoman, arrived at Dongfeng No 2 Primary at 7:01 am on October 24, 2003."
The school, which is in the Haizhu District, will officially kick off the messaging service, which informs parents of students' arrival and departure times, next term.
Taiwan's love affair with early Republican-era romance(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Wang Hui-ling, the scriptwriter for The April of Humanity, said she took the mountains, the sea and the wind to symbolize the three women around whom the story revolves: "Zhang Youyi bears insults and remains chaste like mountains.
Lu Xiaoman is as wild and restless as the sea.
As a result Lu Xiaoman ended up passing her remaining days smoking opium in Shanghai with Wen Ruiwu.
Xiu Xiao-Li and Luo Xiaoman are a couple of young Chinese children orphaned in their homeland in 1940 who a sympathetic Russian officers brings with him to Russia to have enrolled a the internationally renown Ivanova International School, a haven where children like them from all over Europe learn of Russia and communism.
The children find the closest thing they have to families among the other children with the same kind of past as they, and have what seem like promising futures.
With: Vladimir Nizmiroff as the General, Xiu Xiao-Li as Luo Xiaoman, and Guo Ke-Yu as Chuchu.
Complete works of Xu Zhimo published(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
BEIJING, May 15 (UPI) -- A comprehensive collection of the works of the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, including "Love Letters To Lu Xiaoman" has been published.
The writer, who lived 1897-1931, was one of the first Chinese writers to successfully naturalize Western romantic forms into modern Chinese poetry.
The new collection includes all of the writer's poems, essays, novels, plays, translation works, letters and diaries, including works that have never been published, Xinhua, China's main government-run news agency reported Sunday.
[Chengdu City, Sichuan Province] Arrest of Dafa Practitioners Guo Lirong, Lin Xiaoman and Two Others
Lin Xiaoman just settled down after renting a house at Xindu District in Chengdu City, policemen from the Xindu Police Precinct arrested him and two other practitioners.
Now they are illegally detained at the Xindu Detention Center.
Complete works of Xu Zhimo published - (United Press International)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
Complete works of Xu Zhimo published - (United Press International)
BEIJING, China, May. 15 (UPI) -- A comprehensive collection of the works of the Chinese poet Xu Zhimo, including "Love Letters To Lu Xiaoman" has been published.
