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1.Iron & Silk starring: Mark Salzman, Qingfu Pan, Hangcheng Dong, Xihong Jiang, Jeanette Lin Tsui directed by: Shirley Sun February 10, 1993
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This book was more humorous than I had expected and I was pleasantly surprised by that. I enjoyed the peek into a culture that extended beyond the stereotypes we typically see in movies. The author did a good job of selecting good anecdotes to highlight the cultural subtleties that come into play when trying to build relationships with someone from another country.

2.Unknown Pleasures (Sub) starring: Ren Ai Jun, Ru Bai, Xi An Liu, Ai Jun Ren, Juan Antonio Samaranch March 16, 2004
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Several reviewers in their otherwise thoughtful summaries misrepresented the location of this film. It's not set in Shanghai or Beijing, but in a town in Shanxi Province (I'm pretty sure it was Datong). Provincial Shanxi is a very different thing from Shanghai or Beijing, both of which are huge, world cities with strong cosmopolitan elements - far from the closed, limited environment depicted in this film. Part of the dilemma of these kids is that there isn't much for them to do in a provincial town in Shanxi, which from the look of it has missed out on China's "economic miracle." Anyway, this is the second of Jia Zhangke's films that I've seen, and though I thought there were a few too many lengthy shots of Xiao Ji wrestling with his motorcycle, it's well-worth your ... Read More

3.Pavilion of Women starring: Willem Dafoe, Yan Luo, Shek Sau, John Cho, Yi Ding (II) directed by: Ho Yim
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A fascinating film about China in 1938, just before the arrival of the invading Japanese. The film shows the real culture of China in a bourgeois family, how they are divided between respecting the traditions that set women apart, that provide married men with concubines, that marries sons and daughters at birth, but the film also shows how the refusal of these alienating traditions leads the sons and daughters of these families into the arms of the Communists, especially with the Japanese arriving. The film also shows how the Americans are trying to meddle with China via the good old Catholic religion that has nothing to do in China but that provides the poorest, in that case orphans, with a little hope and survival. But then the film turnes sentimentalese. To make the elder son fall in love with ... Read More

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