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The 12-episode TV documentary The Forbidden City has touched upon the many aspects of the Forbidden city, from its architectures, functions, stored cultural relics and artistic treasures as well as its transformation form a royal palace to a public museum. It's trying to present a true picture of historical events and royal court life as well as the hidden world of vivid personalities that are little known to the outside world. In doing so, the producers are hoping to reflect the splendid Chinese civilization and its long history. (For this item please quote stock ID 28237) ISBN: 9787799815442

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A country boy comes to the big city (Shanghai) and proves a person?s worth is not always measured by their money. Comedy w/musical interludes. (For this item please quote stock ID 15503)

Set in the 20th Century BC, The Emperor & The Assassin tells the story of Ying Zheng, a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Qin, whose only goal is to conquer the other six kingdoms existing in China, and merge them into his own, and under his rule. In preparation for the second to his six assaults, Ying gains the help of his concubine Zhao (Gong Li - The Story of Qiu Ju, Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, Shanghai Triad, and Wayne Wang's recent Chinese Box), who travels to the kingdom of Han as a spy, in order to make the king believe that she has fallen out of favour with Ying. Once in Han, and together, with the king, Zhao will find an assasiin, who will be sent to kill Ying, but Ying will be prepared for the assassin's onslaught, and in defending himself, will be considered unstoppable. While walking through the marketplace in the kingdom of Han, Zhao discovers Jing Ke. Struck by his subtle demeanour and able swordmanship, Zhao approaches Jing Ke about becoming the assassin for whom she has been looking and begins a campaign to convince him to kill Ying, using all her powers of persuasion. It is through her dealings with this modest man, that she finds herself falling deeply in love... Cast: Gong Li, Li Xuejian, Zhang Fengyi, Sun Zhou, Lu Xiaohe, Wang Zhiwen, Jiao Huang, Gu Yongfei, Zhao Benshan, Ding Haifeng Crew: Director: Chen Kaige Producers: Satoru Iseki, Shirley Kao, Chen Kaige Co-producer: Zhang Xia Director of Photography: Zhao Fei Associate Producers: Philip Lee, Sunmin Park Editor: Zhou Xinxis Set Dresser: Yang Shimin (For this item please quote stock ID 19694) ISBN: 9317731016004

Based on writer-director Dai Sijie's bestselling autobiographical novel of the same name, Balzac & the Little Chinese Seamstress is a beguiling love story set during the 1970s Cultural Revolution. Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two bourgeois young men from the city are sent to a remote, culturally barren mountain village for re-education in Maoist principles. Discovering a hidden cache of books by western writers such as Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac, the pair transmit thier love of art and literature to the knowledge hungry local seamstress (Xun Zhou), with whom they both prompty fall in love. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an evocative and luminously shot paean to a time long past and to the realisation that change can bring freedom. (For this item please quote stock ID 22408)

Seventeen Years is the latest feature film by Chinese director Zhang Yuan. The screenplay was co-written by Zhang's wife - Ning Dai, with Yu Hua and Zhu Wen. Also known as Diciassette Anni in Italy, the film won the Special Prize for Direction at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. In this drama, a woman seeks reconciliation with her family after an act of shocking violence, though forgiveness may not be forthcoming. Two divorced single parents (Liang Song and Le Yeping) marry, each bringing with them a teenage daughter. Xiaoqin (Li Jun), Mother's daughter, is strong-willed and proudly working-class, intending to get a job in a factory when she finishes school. Xiaolan (Liu Lin), a bit younger and Father's child, is more intellectual and hopes to go on to college. One day, a petty argument between the step-sisters over some change turns ugly; Xiaolan hits Xiaoqiun over the head with a stick, and to the shock of everyone Xiaoqiun dies. Xiaolan is convicted of murder and sentenced to a long stay in prison; after 17 years, a handful of prisoners are released on furlough for New Years, including Xiaolan. When Xiaolan's parents don't arrive to pick her up, she's left stranded; a guard, Chen Jie (Li Bingbing), takes pity on Xiaolan and offers to give her a ride home. However, they soon discover Xiaolan's home has been torn down and her folks have moved. Chen Jie is determined Xiaolan will spend New Year with her family, though Xiaolan herself starts to wonder if they have any desire to see her. (For this item please quote stock ID 21535) ISBN: 9787884085330

The Sun Also Rises is a 2007 film directed by Chinese director Jiang Wen starring Joan Chen, Anthony Wong, Jaycee Chan, and Jiang Wen himself. This movie is the polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert. This movie was screened in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and nominated for Golden Lion but lost to Ang Lee's historical thriller Lust, Caution. This film is also premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9. (For this item please quote stock ID 28800) ISBN: 9787880860214

China's foremost commercial filmmaker Feng Xiaogang lives up to his name with the blockbuster war film Assembly. Pulling in over 23 millian yuan at the domestic box office, Assembly outgunned even The Warlords which was screening concurrently. After years of satirical comedies, Feng's films have gotten progressively bigger in recent years, starting with 2004's A World Without Thieves to 2006's star-studded period piece The Banquet. Based on a novel by Yang Jinyuan, Assembly continues this trend in scale and production, but where The Banquet is glossy, Assembly is gritty, pulling in audiences not with star power, but the magnitude of the war experience. Assembly's realistic battle scenes and brilliant camerawork have earned the film comparisons to Saving Private Ryan, but equally powerful is the human drama that follows the war. Assembly opens on the battlefield in 1948 during China's Civil War. The Ninth Company of the People's Liberation Army led by brash Captain Gu Zidi (Zhang Hanyu) are sent out to defend a mine from the advancing Kuomintang troops. Given an essentially impossible task, the vastly outnumbered Ninth Company are ordered to hold their positions until they hear the bugle assembly call. But that call never comes, or at least not to the injured ears of Gu, as casualties pile and hope run dries. Of the 48 members of the Ninth Company, Gu alone survives the devastating defeat, only to find that he has become a forgotten man, written off as missing in action, just like his fallen comrades. Drifting from regiment to regiment, war to war, Gu struggles to keep alive the legacy of the Ninth Company. Zhang Hanyu from A World Without Thieves gives a commanding performance as a military man whose battle scars follow him on his long, restless search for honor and closure. The faces who make up the Ninth Company include popular Mainland stars Deng Chao and Ren Quan, Blind Shaft lead Wang Baoqiang, and television actor Yuan Wenkang, who gives a notable performance as a timid political officer thrown into war. Acclaimed actor Hu Jun (Lan Yu, Infernal Affairs II) also makes a cameo appearance in Assembly. (For this item please quote stock ID 29528) ISBN: 9787798954074

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A multiple-part TV version of Qian Zhongshu's famous novel. (For this item please quote stock ID 16842) ISBN: 9787884063321

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Eat Drink Man Woman is another internationally-acclaimed masterpiece by Director Ang Lee after Pushing Hands and A Wedding Banquet. Director Ang Lee showed again his unique talent in telling stories of love mad posing dilemmas between love, values and conflicts in traditional Chinese families. Retired Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters and each carries their own passions and secrets in life. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members. In this deliciously heart-winning comedy, Director Ang Lee once again cooks up a feast of surprises and emotional twists, as traditional family ties come unravelled and marvellously knitted together again. (For this item please quote stock ID 18096) ISBN: 9787884084753

At the height of China's Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms: Qin, Zhao, Han Wei, Yan, Chu and Qi. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. As a result, the populace endured decades of death and suffering. The Kingdom of Qin was the most determined of all. The Qin King was obsessed with conquering all of China and becoming her first Emperor. He had long been the target of assassins throughout the other six states. Of all the would-be killers, none inspired as much fear as the three legendary assassins, Broken Sword, Flying Snow and Sky. To anyone who defeated the three assassins, the King of Qin promised great power, mountains of gold and a private audience with the King himself. But defeating the killers is a near impossible task. For ten years no one came close to claiming the prize. So when the enigmatic county sheriff, Nameless, came to the palace bearing the legendary weapons of the slain assassins, the King was impatient to hear his story. Sitting in the palace, only ten paces from the King, Nameless told his extraordinary tale: (For this item please quote stock ID 20052) ISBN: 9787885132668

片名：无极

导演：陈凯歌

主演：真田广之，张东健，张柏芝，谢霆峰，刘烨，陈红

近三年的等待，数亿元人民币的中国电影最高投入，陈凯歌首次执导?史诗大片?，张柏芝、张东健、真田广之、谢霆锋、刘烨联合出演??所有这些铺垫，为电影《无极》营造了一个近乎?神话?的氛围。
作为一部商业大片，《无极》的场面无可厚非是中国电影迄今为止最华丽的：蓝天、白云??还有飘扬的粉色海棠花瓣，《无极》营造的是一个幻化了的世界。影片自始至终贯穿了?自由?、?爱情?、?命运?三大主题，而这又与众多影星精彩的演绎融为一体，遥相呼应，无论是张东健、真田广之，还是谢霆锋、刘烨??准确的理解，精确的把握，让各自角色亦真亦幻，不仅将自己真正置身于神幻世界，还以?无我?心怀携手广大影迷逍遥于缥缈时空之中。
导演陈凯歌所追求的唯美意境在《无极》中有了淋漓尽致的表现，诗意般的故事情节，美轮美奂的影视画面，《指环王》式的特效镜头，个性鲜明的人物形象??让这部年底巨片显得既坚实又厚重！ (For this item please quote stock ID 26171) ISBN: 9787883636281

片名：千里走单骑

导演：张艺谋

主演：高仓健

在连拍了《英雄》、《十面埋伏》两部商业大片后，老谋子返回了他最擅长的文艺片。4届亚太影帝高仓健，中国首席导演张艺谋，两人携手讲述台前幕后男人的温情内心世界。　　

电影中强调人与人之间的真诚关系，相互理解，父子之间的那种不断的亲情，这些细腻的情感似乎只会发生在女人身上，但发生在男人间的真情却由于更加含蓄而益显深沉。没有帅哥，没有美女，两对父子，几年的误会，他们在寻找自己内心的路上不断走着。

片中昔日铁汉般的日本男人开始在云南辗转着，演绎着一场并不泛滥的温情。 (For this item please quote stock ID 26172) ISBN: 9787883634270

In the 1920s, a young hard working peasant goes to Beijing to become a rickshaw boy at a time when the city is torn apart by dueling warlords. The owner of the rickshaw company's daughter falls in love with the boy and despite a ten-year difference in age decides to marry him. Not long after their marriage she dies in childbirth and his world falls apart. He becomes an emotional wreck. Suffering from the pain induced by an archaic society, he falls at the mercy of his environment. A true Chinese classic from the book by Lao She! A must see for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Chinese film. (For this item please quote stock ID 27100) ISBN: 9787880007961

Hua, a poor homeless little girl, was taken home by a kind old man in a small village. However, the son and daughter-in-law of this old man declined to accept her into their family, and tried to drive her out. What was the fate of this poor little girl? Could the old man protect her? It reveals the story of love between Hua and the old man. The only film that generates a box revenue exceeding that of ?Hero? these days. (For this item please quote stock ID 27622)

This is a documentary of the performance of the international acclaimed China Disabled People?s Performing Art Troupe. These disabled artists have performed in 50 countries and has won many awards and prizes. Their disabled leader, Mr. Deng Pufang, won the United Nations Prize in the field of Human Rights in December 2003. In 2000, they went and performed in six US cities, including the Carnegie Hall, J.F. Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center. Eunice Kennedy Shriver is quoted in their brochure as saying, "Your performance is the best one I have ever seen in my life." Their performances include inspirational and artistic programs of musical instruments by sight impaired artists-ensembles, er hu, piano; dynamic and modern Chinese dances & ballet by sight and hearing impaired artists - Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva, Yellow Earth, and Peacock Dance; vocals by sight and physically impaired soloists. Award winner of the 2004 Hollywood Film and TV Program Festival. A must watch film. (For this item please quote stock ID 27623)

Mainland Chinese director Jia Zhangke's Still Life (Sanxia Haoren), a last minute entry into the 2006 Venice Film Festival, eventually won the Golden Lion award thanks to its top-notch cinematography and wonderful storytelling. Still Life interweaves the story of a miner (Han Sanming) who travels thousands of miles to a town near the Yangtze River to look for his ex-wife, and a nurse fetching her husband who has been working at the river without sending a single word home. While the film does not let these two characters cross paths, together they reflect changes in people's lives brought by the Three Gorges Dam, which flooded villages near the Yangtze River and led to the emergence of new settlements. Already acclaimed for his earlier works, most of which also star Han Sanming and Zhao Tao, Jia is probaby the best known Sixth Generation director. With Still Life, he continues his probing grassroots studies of Chinese life. (For this item please quote stock ID 27641) ISBN: 9787799726199

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Set in the Zhuang Minority region of scenic Guilin, this is an entertaining musical of a young woman overcoming adversaries with a unique weapon - witty folk songs featuring her lovely voice. (For this item please quote stock ID 28475) ISBN: 9787884088119

In 1930s, many small businesses had a hard time surviving with the confusion generated by the political uncertainty of the time. Whose law is to be followed, the Japanese occupation forces or the bureaucrat nationalist government? Lin, who owns a family shop, racks his brain to save himself from bankruptcy. He tries everything, even cheats a poor widow out of the meager saving she deposited in his store, but finally loses everything. (For this item please quote stock ID 28476) ISBN: 9787880008289

In 1930's Shanghai violence was not the problem. It was the solution. Uncle Liu brings his cousin to Shanghai to work for 'Boss,' the leader of a powerful drug empire in the 1930's. Shuisheng, a simple country boy is awed and overwhelmed by the opulence and immense wealth he is suddenly surrounded by. He is to be the attendant of Xiao Jingbao, the new mistress of 'Boss.' While he fumbles with the demands of his new role, much intrigue is going on around him, well beyond his bewildered perception. Xiao Jingbao is having a tumultuous affair, Fat Yu is starting a gang war, and 'Boss' is beginning to suspect that one of his trusted men is not loyal. (For this item please quote stock ID 28477) ISBN: 9787883502241

This is the story of Qui Shi, a poet from Chong-qing, a city in the Sichuan province. Qui Shi has been arrested for having offended the "Gang of Four," and has been secreted away on a steamer where he meets others who share his experiences and suffering. Touched by the incidents, inspired by the passengers, Liu Wenying, one of Qui Shi's guards, believes in the innocence of Qui Shi, and decides to help him escape. Ba Mountain range is at the eastern part of the Si-Chuan province, the most populous province in China and it suffered greatly in the era of Cultural Revolution. This movie looks closely at the Cultural Revolution and was a pioneer of the reform movement, but it was forgotten in the rapid economic expansion because what it criticized and advocated has already been accomplished. However, the movie still has its place considering the time it was made, in the early era of reform. (For this item please quote stock ID 28478) ISBN: 9787884081592

It is 1939, and the Red Army is deeply engaged in the war against the Japanese, which for the communist Chinese has been going on for many years. Though they are ostensibly allies, the Kuomintang armies under Chiang Kai-shek have done very little to oppose the invaders, so the battle is theirs. In this story, nine men are being held prisoner by the army along the front lines. Three of them are ordinary "honest" thieves, one was caught spying, another poisoning, the third was accused of collaborating with the enemy because he alone survived when his unit was wiped out and the remaining three deserted from their units. During a battle, when almost every one of the regular soldiers is killed, it is up to these prisoners to fight to help the army, or die. Led by the accused collaborator, they acquit themselves with great bravery. This was the first film production of the Guanxi Film Studio in Naning, China, pre-dating the (1983) production Yellow Earth by some time; however official objections to portions of the storyline and consequent re-shooting and re-editing resulted in it not being released until 1987. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide (For this item please quote stock ID 28508) ISBN: 9797884086510

The nineteenth century was an era of conflict: the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire in Europe; the Civil War in America; the Meiji Restoration in Japan; the Opium War in China followed by the Taiping Rebellion in Nanjing? all critical events that shaped the world today. At times of chaos, heroes are born yet innocence is forever lost? It?s the mid-19th century, one of the darkest periods of Chinese history. The country is suffering under the rule of the corrupt Manchus who invaded China from the North and established the country?s last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Natural disasters are wreaking havoc in the countryside, and in the midst of this chaos, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, one of the strongest rebel groups ever to rise up in China, is overrunning the country and staging battles with the Qing army threatening the Dragon throne. When Ma first met the rough-and-ready bandit, Cao Erhu (starring Andy Lau) and his trusted Lieutenant Zhang Wenxiang (starring Takeshi Kaneshiro), he had not an inkling that they will forever change his life. Cao, the dark and charismatic leader of a band of bandits, bonded with the dark Ma when this stranger saved his life. At Zhang?s urging, the three swear blood brotherhood. Ma had a dream ? he wants to rid China of both the rebels and the corrupt Qing officials. Ma convinces Cao and Zhang on this noble quest and the trio soon engages in many dangerous battles and win. With the help of Cao and his men, Ma manages to squelch the rebels and rises through the ranks. Success has the power to corrupt ? Ma soon became obsessed with power. Cao and Zhang return to their native village, and Cao reunites for an evening with his beautiful wife, Lian (starring Xu Jinglei). But when she and Ma look at each other for the first time, the chemistry is overwhelming; and the seed of betrayal is sown. Ma must remove the one obstacle standing between him and the loyalty of the bandit-soldiers and the beautiful Lian. (For this item please quote stock ID 28815) ISBN: 9787880833959

This film is adapted from the novel of Ah Cheng. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), there is a shabby school in a remote mountain area short of teachers. An educated youth, "Old Cha", though young but has been living and working here for seven years, is chosen to be the "Urchin Cop", that is a teacher. With no books, he will copy the books; without textbook, his dictionary is the holy Bible. The children are prone to read critical articles, but they are not literate. Then the Urchin Cop teaches them how to spell the words and write a composition. Finally, Urchin Cop violates the educational contents and is dismissed, ending up again as the "Old Cha". (For this item please quote stock ID 29021) ISBN: 9787886115042

The story of a poor herdsman who is reunited with his father, a millionaire Chinese-American." The film presents an idyllic look at life in rural North China. The hero, though sent to the hinterlands as a counter-revolutionary because of his father's escape to America, has become enamored of the people who took him end as a frightened, lonely boy years before. (For this item please quote stock ID 29022) ISBN: 9787884081684

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An ancient Chinese legend (Hua Mulan) is magically transformed into an unparalleled adventure bursting with action, emotion, and lots of laughs in this animated 'Mulan.' A spirited young girl named Mulan, who doesn't quite fit into her tradition-bound society, discovers that her aging father has been ordered to help defend China against the invading Huns! In a brave and selfless act, Mulan disguises herself as a man and takes her father's place in the Imperial Army, where she trains with a comical group of warriors, led by the handsome Captain Shang. Never far away are Mulan's hilarious guardian dragon, Mushu, and lucky cricket, Cri-Kee. But Mulan will need more than Mushu's razor-sharp wit to defeat the ruthless Hun leader, Shan-Yu. Only by staying true to her heart will Mulan blossom into a skilled soldier and bring victory to her nation and long-awaited honor to her family! (For this item please quote stock ID 18009) ISBN: 9787883700920

Nezha was born from an egg and Venerable Master Taiyi took him as his disciple to teach him magic arts. When Nezha was seven, the land was struck by a long drought and the greedy ruler of the East Sea, who was in charge of rain, showed little mercy to the people. Instead, he grabbed children as his sacrifice. In order to save the people, Nezha kills the Dragon King?s third and favorite son . . . (For this item please quote stock ID 25157) ISBN: 9787884144228

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Set in the 20th Century BC, The Emperor & The Assassin tells the story of Ying Zheng, a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Kingdom of Qin, whose only goal is to conquer the other six kingdoms existing in China, and merge them into his own, and under his rule. In preparation for the second to his six assaults, Ying gains the help of his concubine Zhao (Gong Li - The Story of Qiu Ju, Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, Shanghai Triad, and Wayne Wang's recent Chinese Box), who travels to the kingdom of Han as a spy, in order to make the king believe that she has fallen out of favour with Ying. Once in Han, and together, with the king, Zhao will find an assasiin, who will be sent to kill Ying, but Ying will be prepared for the assassin's onslaught, and in defending himself, will be considered unstoppable. While walking through the marketplace in the kingdom of Han, Zhao discovers Jing Ke. Struck by his subtle demeanour and able swordmanship, Zhao approaches Jing Ke about becoming the assassin for whom she has been looking and begins a campaign to convince him to kill Ying, using all her powers of persuasion. It is through her dealings with this modest man, that she finds herself falling deeply in love... Cast: Gong Li, Li Xuejian, Zhang Fengyi, Sun Zhou, Lu Xiaohe, Wang Zhiwen, Jiao Huang, Gu Yongfei, Zhao Benshan, Ding Haifeng Crew: Director: Chen Kaige Producers: Satoru Iseki, Shirley Kao, Chen Kaige Co-producer: Zhang Xia Director of Photography: Zhao Fei Associate Producers: Philip Lee, Sunmin Park Editor: Zhou Xinxis Set Dresser: Yang Shimin (For this item please quote stock ID 25815) ISBN: 9787880812114

The fisrt documentary of Australia-Chinese new migrants. (For this item please quote stock ID 27829)

Tuya's Marriage was the winner of the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2007. Tuya is the wife of Bater, a herdsman who has lost movement in his legs while exploring for water in the Neimenggu (Inner Mongolia), a grassland that is fast vanishing as a result of desertification. She takes up the sole responsibility to make a living for the family, but develops a slipped disc from her hard labor and risks paralysis herself. Faced with these harsh conditions, the couple decide to divorce so that Tuya can seek a better life. Imposing her own conditions of a remarriage - that her new husband must take care of Bater, their children and their land - the strong-minded, stubborn, but also gentle Tuya embarks on an arduous search for a new husband. Along the way she meets a variety of suitors - rich but disingenuous or likable but shy - and saves a suicidal Bater who still longs for Tuya and their children. Who, if given a choice, would want to grow up on the cold, arid steppe of Inner Mongolia, the setting of Wang Quan An's absorbing film "Tuya's Marriage"? The climate is so inhospitable that life is a grinding struggle for subsistence. Water is scarce and must be lugged by hand from distant wells. Yet the movie finds an austere beauty in this landscape of scrub and grassland ringed by forbidding slate-blue mountains. The camera frequently draws back to take in the spectacle of people dwarfed by nature in a harsher Asian answer to the North American plains. Most of the film's characters, including Tuya (Yu Nan), an attractive, robust woman who lives with her husband and their two young children, dwell in crude huts made with wood and rugs. Sheep herding is the region's primary occupation and source of food, although there are signs of change. And alcohol is almost as necessary a staple as water; consumed prodigiously, it provides insulation from the cold and relief from pain. Lest you think that "Tuya's Marriage" is an ethnographic curiosity, Mr. Wang and his screenwriting collaborator, Lu Wei ("Farewell My Concubine"), portray a world that, apart from its hardship, is thoroughly recognizable in its human complexity. -Stephen Holden, The New York Times (For this item please quote stock ID 29695) ISBN: 9787798947519

"Together" is a coming-of-age tale woven together with the harmony and intensity of a complex musical orchestration. Xiaochun is a 13-year-old boy, a talented violinist who lives with his father in a small, provincial Chinese city. Shy and sensitive, music is his way of expressing his feelings. Xiaochun's sweet-natured father wants the best for him, so they move to immense, metropolitan Beijing so that Xiaochun can audition for a prestigious music school and take lessons that befit his talent. But Xiaochun's new world is unlike any he's known. He meets new and demanding teachers, discovers true friendship, falls in love for the first time, learns how painful love can be, and comes to understand the true meaning of music. With his world splitting in two and everyone telling him what they want for him, Xiaochun has to figure out what he wants for himself. (For this item please quote stock ID 20065) ISBN: 9787883062554

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The film tells the story about the daughter of a Nationalist general who revisits the famous summer resort Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi province in 1980 and falls in love with the son of a senior general of the Chinese Communist Party. This movie is regarded as one of the modern romantic classics in China. (For this item please quote stock ID 28509) ISBN: 9787885181369

An animated episode from Journey to the West, otherwise known as Monkey. (For this item please quote stock ID 26693) ISBN: 9787884144167

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The film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages. Government policy is forcing the retirement of "Auntie" Yang (Yang Yaning) and she will have to separate after years of professional partnership from Feng (Li Baotian). They are accompanied by her replacement, recent law school graduate Ah-Luo (Lu Yulai). (For this item please quote stock ID 27849) ISBN: 9787883677314

In the Heat of the Sun and Devils on the Doorstep are two of the finest and most honored Chinese films ever made. Body in Question is the first book to thoroughly examine these groundbreaking works and one of the first books in English to study individual Chinese films in depth.

These two award-winning films by renowned director-actor Jiang Wen and cinematographer Gu Changwei are unsurpassed in China for their exquisite attention to realistic detail, their stylistic range, their emotional breadth, and their razor-like commentary on contemporary China. In scenes that range from hilarious to horrific, China's ruling elite and its complicated relationship with Japan are subjected to the filmmakers' ironic treatment and profound concern with social justice. In the Heat of the Sun has become unavailable, and Devils on the Doorstep has been suppressed by the Chinese government. Jerome Silbergeld gives these two important films careful and extended study in Body in Question. He uses cinema and photography, political history, anthropology and philosophy, Chinese rhetorical traditions, and concepts of justice to explore the films' visual complexity and intellectual force, providing a unique look at the artistry and pressing concerns of Chinese cinema today. An accompanying DVD includes major clips from both films.

Body in Question will be of interest to specialists in Chinese art and culture, and anyone interested in film, Chinese politics, and Asian culture.

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The revised and expanded edition of this essential guide to Chinese cinema includes brings together 35 essays, including 14 brand new articles, by leading international scholars, addressing key films from the 1930s to the present, including Hero, Farewell My Concubine and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
Contributors:
Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po works in his family's noodle shop while daydreaming about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study alongside his idols-the legendary fighters Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey-under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu hero into reality? Po puts his heart and his girth into the task, and ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths. (For this item please quote stock ID 30919) ISBN: 9787880879629

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50 years ago a group of young people drove the timber pole into the ice and snow-topped Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, beginning a dream to build a railway on the ridge of the world. But the dream was broken in front of the harsh natural environment and a young member of the survey party was left there forever. 20 years later, his posthumous son Yu Mingyuan came to the plateau with the railway builders to build the railway again. However when they laid the railway track to the foot of the Kunlun Mountains with their blood and lives, they had to give up again. The Kunlun Mountains devoured his fellow builders and his first lover. 24 years passed. The middle-aged Yu Mingyuan led the railway builders to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau again for the final decisive battle in building the railway. Chu Ranran, an expert of altitude sickness, came with them. The advanced facilities, such as Hyperbaric oxygen chambers and the scientific and technical means ensured the health condition and promoted the efficiency of building the railway. To his surprise, Yu found that Chu Ranran was the image of his first lover? (For this item please quote stock ID 30946) ISBN: 9787884783458

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Wang Bo (Andy Lau) and Wang Li (Rene Liu) should have made the perfect Bonnie and Clyde, the former a seasoned con man and master pickpocket from Hong Kong, the latter a grifter femme fatale from Taiwan. Partners in crime and passion, the couple swindle their way across China, until one fine day Li suddenly decides to call it quits, both to her egregious lifestyle and to her entanglement with Bo. It is at this crossroad in their lives and relationships that they run into Fu Gen in a train station, an encounter that will alter their fate forever. (For this item please quote stock ID 24952) ISBN: 9787880708950

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The family of three were busy with their preparation of exams of various kind, namely the son was preparing for his university entrance exam; the mother preparing for her various TV quizzes and the father, his job interviews (a kind of exam in the eyes of Chinese people) and yet they were mutual supportive and eventually pull through all the twists and turns in the processes. The most popular "Happy New Year Film" in the year 2000 in China (For this item please quote stock ID 15968)

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In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minister Cao Cao (Zhang Feng Yi) convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever. (For this item please quote stock ID 29959) ISBN: 9787880834413

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minister Cao Cao (Zhang Feng Yi) convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever. (For this item please quote stock ID 31110) ISBN: 9787880834819

Sophie (Ziyi Zhang) is a talented cartoonist who seems to have it all ? a successful career, great friends, and the perfect, handsome, fiancé, Jeff (Ji-seob So), a surgeon who her mother adores. So when Jeff is stolen away by Anna (Bingbing Fan), a beautiful actress, Sophie wants revenge. The first step in her plan, 'Sympathy and Understanding,' fails, as does the second step, 'Nostalgia.' Sophie?s friends invite her out to a party to cheer her up, but she runs into Jeff and Anna. She also runs into Gordon (Peter Ho), a photographer, who apparently has been recently dumped by Anna. She quickly elicits his help in her revenge campaign. With Gordon, Sophie continues to implement the other steps of her plan. But 'Reinvention' fails. So does 'Entrapment'. Gordon reluctantly agrees to help Sophie with 'Arousing Jealousy', where they both behave like lovers in front of Jeff and Anna. Finally, something in her plan begins to work: Jeff seems to be jealous. A thrilled Sophie is convinced that the next step, 'Search and Rescue', will be her final winning move. But Gordon refuses to help, and confesses that he has fallen in love with Sophie, who, sooner than expected, is confronted by a repentant Jeff who wants her back! Who should she choose for true love and happiness? (For this item please quote stock ID 32049) ISBN: 9787885894177

City of Life and Death takes place in 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Imperial Japanese Army has just captured the then-capital of the Republic of China, Nanjing. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a period of several weeks wherein hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were murdered. The film tells the story of several figures, both historical and fictional, including a Chinese soldier, a schoolteacher, a Japanese soldier, a foreign missionary, and John Rabe, a Nazi businessman who would ultimately save thousands of Chinese civilians.
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A recording of the epic song-and-dance stage work of the Chinese Revolution and the birth of the People's of Republic China under Mao Zedong's leadership.

Music and dance epic "East is Red" is a collection of new China, literature, history, music, dance, equivalent to one of the classics. From the capital and in 3000 professional and amateur artists the joint performances are serious, rigorous production to achieve the highest artistic realm at that time.

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The revised and expanded edition of this essential guide to Chinese cinema includes brings together 35 essays, including 14 brand new articles, by leading international scholars, addressing key films from the 1930s to the present, including Hero, Farewell My Concubine and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Contributors:
Chris Berry is Professor of Film and Television Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Jian Guo Da Ye (English title: The Founding of a Republic) is a mandarin film with English subtitles starring many well known actors including Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Zhang ZhiYi, John Woo, Andy Lau, Donnie Yen and Leon Lai.
Following the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Communist Party started to rule in the mainland and Kuomingtang was forced to retreat to the island of Taiwan. The new power, along with other parties then, came together to organize the very first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and discussed to establish the People?s Republic of China (PRC). (For this item please quote stock ID 32167) ISBN: 9787880862010

Qin Fen (Ge) is a jobless middle-aged man who returns to China after many unsuccessful years as an oversea student. However, he becomes an instant multimillionaire after selling his "innovative invention" to a high-profile (but foolish) angel investor (Fan). With his new fortune, Qin decides to put an end to his bachelor life and advertises open invitations to potential partners online, citing only "if you are the one", which means "don't disturb if not sincere". Subsequently, he encountered various keen candidates from a homosexual man, a cemetery saleswoman, a pathological amnesiac, an ethnic minority pecking hen, an erotophobic widow, a naive single mother to a stock-holding maniac. Eventually he crosses path with a love-sick stewardess Liang Xiaoxiao (Shu). While helping Liang get over her agonizing love affair with a married man (Fong), Qin finally finds his true love. (For this item please quote stock ID 31127) ISBN: 9787885798161

In 1905, Sun Yat-sen (called "Sun Wen" in the film) intends to come to Hong Kong (then a colony of the British Empire) to discuss his plans for revolution with fellow Tongmenghui members to overthrow the corrupt and crumbling Qing Dynasty. Empress Dowager Cixi sends a group of assassins led by Yan Xiaoguo to kill Sun. Revolutionary Chen Shaobai arrives in Hong Kong a few days before Sun's arrival, to meet Li Yutang, a businessman who provides financial aid for the revolutionaries. As Sun Wen's arrival day draws near, trouble begins brewing in Hong Kong as Chen Shaobai's acquaintances are murdered and Chen himself is kidnapped by the assassins during a raid. Li Yutang decides to officially declare his support for the revolutionaries after the newspaper agency is closed by the British authorities, who maintain a policy of laissez-faire towards China's political situation. Li rallies a group of men, including rickshaw pullers, hawkers and a beggar, to serve as bodyguards for Sun Wen when he arrives. Li's son Li Chongguang is chosen to act as a decoy for Sun Wen to divert the assassins away while Sun attends the meeting and leaves Hong Kong safely. (For this item please quote stock ID 32447) ISBN: 9787883772361

The epic story of the Chinese girl-warrior, Mulan, who fights to defend her father. (For this item please quote stock ID 32448) ISBN: 9787799120843

Wind and Cloud find themselves up against a ruthless Japanese warlord intent on invading China. (For this item please quote stock ID 32449) ISBN: 9787798970562

In the northwest desert where countless prosperous dynasties have flourish and fallen, there is rumour of a buried treasure of unbelievable riches. A group of mysterious guardians have kept the map to the location of the treasure safe, until a fierce rivalry erupts. A notorious international crime group, The Company hunt down the map keepers and before they manage to secure it, the keeper passes the map to a young chivalrous man Ciao Fei (Jay Chou). Ciao Fei is forced to give up the map to save the live of his mentor's daughter Lan Ting (Lin Chi Ling). Teaming up with Hua Ding Bang (a famous archaeologist) and Lan Ting they embark on a dangerous journey to recover the map and fight to protect the ancient treasure. (For this item please quote stock ID 32450) ISBN: 9787798970562

It is about how individuals struggle to fit in or avoid fitting in a society where universal conformity is the priority at the high price of independence. It begins with four-year-old Fang Qiangqiang being sent to a kindergarten by his father. There he has a rather difficult time adapting to the school's strict rules. Life in the kindergarten is quasi-militaristic. Everything is strictly regulated, from the precise way in which they must raise their hands to ask for more soup or rice, to the way they are expected to use the bathroom. Fang often fails to acclimatize himself to this regimen. As his constant bedwetting and difficult behavior draws the ire of his short-fused teacher, the unintentional rebellion of the troubled young child finds himself increasingly ostracized by the other children. However... Panorama Jury Award (Berlin Film Festival 2006) (For this item please quote stock ID 27118) ISBN: 9787798937848

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