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Author Archives: Alice Xin Liu
Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town trailer
Zhao Dayong’s film about Zhiziluo, a village the Myanmar border. The film was the only Chinese film at the recent New York Film Festival.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged Ghost Town, independent film, New York Film Festival, Zhao Dayong
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“China is taking the climate change issue seriously and cautiously”
Zou Xi (邹曦), a reporter at the Beijing Science & Technology Report (北京科技报), speaks to Danwei about science and the environment.
Posted in Media
Tagged Beijing Science & Technology Report, Copenhagen, environment, pollution, Zou Xi
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Carl Crow’s The Long Road Back to China
In 1939 Carl Crow – an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese – travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine － ‘the most interesting assignment I have ever been given’.
Posted in China Books
Tagged Burma, Carl Crow, Earnshaw Books, Paul French
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“What makes the most profit? Risk does.” China Film Group CEO interview with Southern Weekly
Han Sanping, the CEO of China Film Group, is extensively interviewed by Southern Weekly about overwhelming statics, creating a “dialogue” with Americans and their film industry, and how the State apparatus supports the making of movies and fostering of young directors in China.
Posted in Film
Tagged China Film Group, Han Sanping, Southern Weekly, State-owned film
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Human Flesh Search Engine: a film
Shanghai’s Daedalum Films present Human Flesh Search Engine, Part I. Produced by Luis A. Tapia and Mark Schoellkopf and directed by Tapia, it’s also available as a video on the Daedalum film site.
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Tagged Daedalum Films, human flesh search
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Ah Bei, CEO of douban.com, on the website as a “creative stage”
Compared to other websites on the Chinese blogosphere, douban.com, not quite a social networking site but still based on users forming events, discussion groups, fan pages of brands, groups, people et al, has dominated the cultural scene online in China.
Posted in Internet culture
Tagged Ah Bei, books, douban.com, movies, music, SNS
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I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius
Earnshaw Books publishes another classic from a forgotten era, this time a foreign journalist’s account with pirates in the early 1900s.
Posted in China Books
Tagged Aleko E. Lilius, Paul French, pirates
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Berlin 1993: Avant-Garde Chinese rock
A serialised version of Rock in Berlin: The Chinese Avant-Garde is on Youtube, featuring Cui Jian, Cobra, Tang Dynasty and Wang Yong. Thanks to SinoScuba for the link.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged avant-garde, Cui Jian, rock in Berlin, Tang Dynasty
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Corrupt officials have things
A Southern Metropolis Journalist journalist Zhang Jun makes a video at a primary school in Guangzhou at the beginning of the school year. He interviews one girl about what she’d like to be when she grows up. She replies that she’d like to be a corrupt official because they have a lot of things.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged Black and White Cat, corrupt offcials, ESWN, Guangdong, Southern Metropolis, video
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