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	Xiu Xiu
		Xiu Xiu is primarily the result of the determination of Joan Chen.
		Lao is a quiet, introspective nomad, and Xiu Xiu is a headstrong city girl who cannot wait to be reassigned once her 6 month tenure is up.
		Clearly, he is very fond of Xiu Xiu and treats her like the daughter he never had, but he does little as a succession of men have their way with her.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/xiu_xiu.html (563 words)

	TrouserPress.com :: Xiu Xiu
		Xiu Xiu reject the paradox of making pretty music about agonizing experiences, creating a hybrid of disparate elements that can be painful to listen to in all its frenetic glory.
		Xiu Xiu was born out of the wreckage of Ten in the Swear Jar, a band with Jamie Stewart and Cory McCulloch, that was the cleaned-up continuation of their ska combo, IBOPA.
		Xiu Xiu is an orchestra containing all of the above conducted by a distraught maniac.
	www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=xiu_xiu&tr=y (813 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As Xiu Xiu is about to embark on the unknown journey, the narrator, a young boy at this time, runs to the second floor of the school building and takes a last look at his sweetheart.
		Throughout the film, Xiu Xiu is entangled in the complex of returning to her beloved city, which leaves no room for her, and for the film in general, to transcend mere reality and reflect upon the vastness of nature and Tibetan culture.
		Xiu Xiu's death at the end of the film is a reflection of her hopelessness instead of a subversion or challenge of the Han culture.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/asianfilm/china/xiuxiu.html (3471 words)

	CNN - Review: Passion delayed in 'Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl' - June 15, 1999
		Xiu is considered one of the "educated youth." This lengthy sojourn -- called being "sent down" -- is apparently designed to put everyone in the country on an equal spiritual and philosophical footing to negate the bourgeois concept of intellectual superiority.
		Xiu's teacher (and only companion) on this adventure is Lao Jin (played by Lopsang), a manual laborer who's rumored to have been castrated when he was held prisoner by Tibetan rebels.
		Lao Jin is a man of few words, and Xiu is less than pleased to be stuck in the middle of nowhere, in one tent, with a person whom she considers to be a couple miles beneath her station.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9906/15/review.xiu.xiu/index.html (888 words)

	Tian yu (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Starring Lu Lu as Xiu Xiu, a teenaged girl from the city sent to the country during Mao's cultural revolution, and Lopsang as Lao Jin, a castrated Tibetan nomad who is to teach her horse husbandry, Tian yu is not so much an indictment of communist China as it is an indictment of human nature.
		Xiu Xiu is brutalized by small-minded bureaucratic males as has happened throughout human history, be they communist or feudal, her innocence and youth traded for an apple, her buoyant hope for life dashed by blind political and economic forces, and her self-respect stolen from her by the twisted logic of rape and lust.
		Xiu Xiu has an imperial nature natural to favored girls everywhere, be they Japanese "princesses" or American "valley girls," a nature very well depicted by the script and very well acted out by Lu Lu, whose delicate beauty and spicy temperament clash well with Lao Jin's Taoist stoicism.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0115005 (671 words)

	Xiu Xiu - A Film by Joan Chen
		In Xiu Xiu's little army cot, a martyr would be born under the silver moonlight, soaked in sweat.
		Precocious and inquisitive, Wen Xiu - known playfully among her peers as Xiu Xiu - enlists for horse-training on the plains of Tibet, so that she may be considered for the illustrious Girls' Iron Calvary.
		Modest, but outspoken, Xiu Xiu is indifferent to Lao Jin's solitary life, and the seasons pass merely as markers for her return to Cheng-du.
	www.ground0.com /defunct/xiu (1048 words)

	Xiu Xiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Xiu Xiu (pronounced "shoe shoe") the Sent Down Girl is a movie about a young Chinese girl during the 196's who is "sent down" to the country side by the Communist Government.
		The band Xiu Xiu describes it as "the most depressing movie in the world," and thus their name.
		Xiu Xiu produces a type of music all in it's own, few can rival their emotion or sound, drawing comparisons to Joy Division, the Magnetic Fields, and New Order.
	www.recordrelapse.com /xiuxiu.htm (1142 words)

	Amazon.com: La Forêt: Music: Xiu Xiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Xiu Xiu has released four LPs in just over 40 months, along with 2 EPs, split 7"s and CDs with Jim Yoshii Pileup, This Song is a Mess and the deceased Bunkbed, and their own single, Fleshettes, and most of that content has been of consistent and increasing quality.
		Xiu Xiu is known for its rapturous dirges, and the histrionics of frontman Jamie Stewart, who is the musical and emotional heart of the band.
		Xiu Xiu's music is overwhelmingly sad and pained, and the lyrics are sometimes unbearably intimate, personal, and confessional, to the point where on previous records their sound veered into the grounds of self-parody.
	www.amazon.com /For%C3%AAt-Xiu/dp/B0009VI5PW (3161 words)

	sfbg.com \| A and E
		Xiu Xiu demands more of a listener – it needs a partnership, full participation, to make sense.
		To the cloistered indie rock world, Xiu Xiu is a fl box, a mysterious chain-yanker or a reminder that they once listened to those dandiest of misanthropes, the yet-to-be-revisionist-approved Smiths.
		Xiu Xiu makes people uncomfortable because it refuses to let you put up an arm's-length parameter, getting so far into your face and guts that you lose the option of withdrawal.
	www.sfbg.com /37/42/art_music_xiu.html (920 words)

	Xiu Xiu, the Sent Down Girl (1999): Lu Lu, Lopsang, Jie Gao, Wenqiang Wang - PopMatters Film Review
		When she arrives at Lao Jin's place, however, Xiu Xiu is understandably apprehensive: he lives in a tent in the middle of nowhere, moving occasionally to keep his animals eating wild grasses.
		Xiu Xiu is somewhat comforted by Lao Jin's gentleness, not to mention his apparent inability to make sexual demands on her.
		While both Lao Jin and Xiu Xiu are plainly agonized and feeling optionless, the irony of this impotent man caring for the girl he would, in truth, like to bed, is not a little awful.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/x/xiu-xiu.html (1057 words)

	SPLICEDwire: "Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl" review (1999)
		The sense of Xiu Xiu's loneliness is illustrated by sweeping, bare cinematic vistas.
		Descending gradually, into devistating martyrdom, the once happy-go-lucky and sinless Xiu Xiu (pronounced shoh-shoh) becomes disillusioned, eventually turning to prostitution, thinking, in her naivete, that giving herself to the right military passerby to her modest tent on the Tibetan prairie might beget a pass back to her family.
		She shot the picture on the sneak in Shanghai and Tibet, and subsequently she and the film have been banned from the country where she grew up during the era depicted in the film (she had friends who were "sent down" while she was trained as an actress).
	www.splicedonline.com /99reviews/xiuxiu.html (556 words)

	Xiu Xiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Xiu Xiu's music is painfully autobiographical, morose, and histrionic, and is deeply influenced by modern classical, improvisation, British pop and post-punk, techno beats, and, well, the gamelan orchestra.
		Well Xiu Xiu certainly has more than a little in common with their friends Deerhoof, attacking established pop idioms with a savant's genius, inverting them and reclaiming them in fascinating if sometimes disorienting ways.
		Even while Xiu Xiu turns the post-punk paradigm on its head, approaching it from a modern composition perspective that results in all kinds of weird cut-ups, juxtapositions, classical instrumentation, and unexpected arrangements, the comic but dead-serious nihilism of the seminal bands referenced by Stewart pervades Xiu Xiu's music.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/xiuxiu.html (366 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Xiu Xiu
		Xiu Xiu's best stuff happens when Stewart gets to be quieter, such as on the track "What Chu' Talkin' About," in which he haltingly sings, "Tell me why they hurt you like that/I can't see how you go on," then repeats the iffy chorus, "Tonight and today," with a slight stutter.
		Xiu Xiu have been picked up by Kill Rock Stars' sister label, 5 Rue Christine, a label KRS started to promote "difficult" music, music that challenges and demands some work from the listener.
		Xiu Xiu plays Nov. 4 at 328 Rigg St. in Santa Cruz with Jim Yoshii Pile Up, Continental and Sin in Space, and Nov. 9 at Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, with Hella, the Lies, Contrail and Teeth.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.01.01/xiuxiu-0144.html (565 words)

	Xiu Xiu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Xiu Xiu (pronounced "shoo-shoo") is an experimental indie band originally from and currently based in San Jose, California, with time often spent in Seattle, Washington.
		Xiu Xiu's music draws heavily from several disparate genres including punk, noise rock, ambient noise, modern classical, and folk.
		Xiu Xiu's music is also influenced by bands of the UK post-punk scene such as The Cure and Joy Division.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Xiu_Xiu (1163 words)

	Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
		Xiu Xiu know this, and from an early stage took to emitting that soft center, and replacing it with a clatter so fragmented and ugly, that Jamie Stewart's strained, searing vocals charred the soul in a way that is far more permanent than his obvious new-wave inspirations.
		Xiu Xiu write like morbid, pissed-off valley gurls, and on Fabulous Muscles their lyrics are sicker than ever.
		Xiu Xiu are still at their best when they're loud, soaring, distorted, melodic, with controlled injections of noise terror.
	www.dot-alt.com /xiuxiu_fm.html (429 words)

	Political Film Society - Xiu Xiu
		Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl, the latest portrayal of the ruthlessness of the People’s Republic of China in trampling on the individual during the Cultural Revolution, is based on Yan Geling’s novella Heavenly Bath (Tian Yu), which in turn is adapted for the screen and directed by China-born actress Joan Chen.
		The film focuses on fifteen-year-old Wen Xiu (played by Lu Lu), nicknamed Xiu Xiu, who is from an educated working class family in the city of Chengdu.
		All 7.5 million educated teenagers, according to the Communist Party, must be sent down to the provinces to become "educated" by hard labor alongside the poorest of the poor about the wisdom of the Communist utopia.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/xiuxiu.html (529 words)

	Xiu Xiu News
		Xiu Xiu's latest CD, "The Air Force" is odder, more chilling and scarier than anything the collective led by Jamie Stewart has previously produced.
		Listening to Xiu Xiu is like tasting a strange tropical fruit: Either you savor its exotic nature, or you throw up a little in your mouth.
		Xiu XIu; Four and a half out of five stars Phaedra Brucato Issue date: 9/27/06 Section: Arts When a band like Xiu Xiu continually traverses through the tough terrain of the taboo, its fans may be forgiven if...
	www.topix.net /who/xiu-xiu?scoring=r (667 words)

	Ink 19 :: Xiu Xiu
		Xiu Xiu's Fabulous Muscles stands as the 2004 equivalent, swapping woefully out-of-date funk-metal for lo-fi electronic chaos.
		On previous Xiu Xiu albums, critics have been known to throw out words like "disturbing" and "shocking" as sort of all encompassing adjectives for the band's work.
		Whether the band can keep the upward swing going or not remains to be seen, but right now, Xiu Xiu is definitely one of the most important bands in indie rock.
	www.ink19.com /issues/august2004/musicReviews/musicX/xiuXiu.html (383 words)

	Cokemachineglow.com : Xiu Xiu: La Foret
		Those songs feature lyrics that could be considered uneasy listening with their confessional lyrics, but the story “Mike” tells is too affecting to be tossed away as attention-whoring, and the song-writing behind “I Luv the Valley” is too perfectly crafted to ignore.
		In short: any Xiu Xiu song was rife with the elements that tend to turn people off, but there was almost always something that redeemed it or held it together as a great, provocative song.
		Xiu Xiu’s newest album features the return of integral original band member Corey McCulloch to (more or less) full-time duty as well as the return of an actual live band to the recording process after the mostly Stewart-alone-in-the-studio effort that was Fabulous Muscles.
	www.cokemachineglow.com /reviews/xiuxiu_foret2005.html (654 words)

	Eye Weekly - Children of the Cultural Revolution - 07.15.99
		Based on a novella by writer Yan Geling (which Chen helped adapt), Xiu Xiu begins back in the bad old days of China's Cultural Revolution, during which millions of "educated youth" from the city were routinely "sent down" into rural areas to learn the virtues of living like peasants.
		A Chengdu tailor's daughter We Xiu (Lu Lu) is one such sacrifice on the altar of Communist philosophy -- exiled to Tibet, where she lives with a silent, eccentric horse-herder.
		Meanwhile, her inside knowledge of the era allows her to sketch the subtle, terrible ways in which Xiu Xiu's descent destroys her energetic self-confidence as a member of China's ideological elite -- making her betrayal all the more wrenching -- with a sure hand.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_07.15.99/film/xiuxiu.html (717 words)

	Amazon.ca: Fabulous Muscles: Music: Xiu Xiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Xiu Xiu has always been a group but it's also sort of like a solo project by Jamie Stewart.
		Xiu Xiu has been accussed of being overly-dramatic, but Stewart knows the power of restraint, so even when his voice seems about to break, it lingers on.
		Xiu Xiu's previous efforts were great and I love them.
	www.amazon.ca /Fabulous-Muscles-Xiu/dp/B00019JQ5A (1617 words)

	CMT.com : Xiu Xiu : Biography
		Taking their name from the 1998 Chinese film Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, post-punk throwbacks Xiu Xiu were formed in San Jose, CA, by Cory McCullough, Yvonne Chen (publisher of the
		Before forming Xiu Xiu, McCullough and Stewart played in the band Ten in the Swear Jar.
		Xiu Xiu kept busy in 2005 with the full-length La Forêt and a split single with Devendra Banhart.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/xiu_xiu/bio.jhtml (263 words)

	Xiu Xiu: The Air Force: Pitchfork Record Review (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In fact, Xiu Xiu's fifth album didn't click for me until late one night after the wrecking crew across the street had long stopped loading broken buildings into a dumpster.
		Considering Xiu Xiu's output, it's understandable you might overlook any number of releases: the covers EP, Tu Mi Piaci, is still fresh from the oven; the Grouper collaboration, Creepshow, is just around the corner; album six, with its much talked about Michael Gira duet, is bubbling on the horizon.
		So hey, it's interesting then to note that just when the indie kids are switching their wardrobes to fl, Xiu Xiu should unleash-- relatively speaking, of course-- their most understated, surprisingly sweetest album to date.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /article/record_review/38549/Xiu_Xiu_The_Air_Force (872 words)

	Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl . Austin Chronicle . 08-09-99
		Initially filled with optimism and courage about leaving home, Xui Xiu's fortunes take a turn when her pluck and good spirit are rewarded with an assignment to the barren countryside of Tibet, where she is to train in horse riding and herding in order to eventually lead the illustrious Girls' Iron Cavalry.
		Then, on the morning of her six-month anniversary, Xiu Xiu dresses in her finest clothes and waits outside the tent for Headquarters to come fetch her as promised.
		Also awkward is the film's narrative voice: The story is told as a memory/fantasy of a Cheng-du playmate of Xiu Xiu's, a boy who had a crush on her.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/x/xiuxiuthesentdown1.html (524 words)

	Amazon.com: A Promise: Music: Xiu Xiu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It has all the Xiuy Xiu trademarks; outbursts of synth noise and distorted screams followed or preceded by calm moments and quiet bits.
		Xiu Xiu always border on being over the top and almost ridiculously pretensious, both musicaly as well as lyricaly, and though on this album they sometimes cross that invisible line, it's still an accomplished effort.
		Xiu Xiu have made an impressive statement nonetheless, and it is much like reading a suicide note, years after the fact.
	www.amazon.com /Promise-Xiu/dp/B000089CRU (1160 words)

	LA BUTACA - Xiu Xiu
		Lu Lu (Xiu Xiu), Qian Zeng (Li Chuanbel), Gao Jie (madre), Lopsang (Lao Jin), Li Zhizhen (jefe del cuartel general), Gao Qiang (vendedor ambulante), Qin Wenyuan (conductor motocicleta), Cao Jiong (Tres dedos).
		Xiu Xiu, la hija de un sastre es enviada al campo para servir en un movimiento que hace mucho tiempo que ha perdido su finalidad.
		Enviada durante seis meses para aprender a arrendar caballos, se dice a Xiu Xiu que volverá a disfrutar del honor de liderar su propia unidad de caballería totalmente femenina.
	www.labutaca.net /films/7/xiuxiu.htm (224 words)

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