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| | Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | "Taiwan" is commonly used to refer to the territories currently governed by the Republic of China (ROC), which include the Taiwan island group (including Lanyu (Orchid Island) and Green Island), the Pescadores in the Taiwan Strait, Kinmen and Matsu off the coast of mainland Fujian, and Taiping and the Pratas in the South China Sea. | | | Illegal immigrants from Fujian continued to enter Taiwan as renters of the large plots of aboriginal lands under contracts that usually involved marriage, while the border between taxpaying lands and "savage" lands migrated east, with some aborigines 'Sinicizing' while others retreated into the mountains. | | | Taiwan's two largest cities, Taipei City and Kaohsiung City, although on the island of Taiwan, are not part of Taiwan Province but are centrally-administered municipalities, with the same level as provinces. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
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| | Chinese Cinema |
| | Cinematic Landscapes: Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan. | | | Lightness of Being in China: Adaptation and Discursive Figuration in Cinema and Theater. | | | The Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. |
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http://chinesecinema.ucsd.edu/biblio_ccwlc.html
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| | The Gangster as Hero in Hong Kong Cinema |
| | This essay will explore the appropriation of the gangster genre by Hong Kong cinema, by mainly focusing on some of the more acclaimed directors to have worked in the genre, John Woo, Johnny To and Wong Kar-wai. | | | Furthermore, the break between communist China and capitalist Hong Kong gave way to violent demonstrations between the years of 1966 and 1976 - the period of the Cultural Revolution in China (Ping-kwan 2000: 227). | | | In Hong Kong cinema, however, the gangster is often presented as a hero figure with hope for redemption - an image that is most evident in the work of John Woo. |
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http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/new_offscreen/hkgangster.html
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| | Transnational China Project Co-Sponsored Roundtable with Peggy Chiao: Contemporary Chinese Cinema |
| | Chiao: And a lot of the small art cinemas have folded. | | | One just has to do with this whole idea of a regional cinema, and how you see that developing, given the economic and political disparities or differences between the key national cinemas or production centers involved, and just how you think something like this might come about. | | | They bring in profits using location shooting in China and one or two big stars from China. |
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http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/commentary/chiaoroundtable0401.html
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| | David Bordwell: CV |
| | Coordinator, symposium, "Light in the East: New Trends in Cinema from Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Mainland China," University of Wisconsin--Madison consisting of three guest speakers and director Ann Hui; 14-15 February 1997. | | | Storytelling Developments in 1990s American Cinema.” Invited lecture, University of Turku, Finland, 20 September 2004; UW Center for the Humanities Distinguished Lectures series, 2 February 2005; University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 9 March 2005; LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 11 March 2005. | | | "Angelopoulos and the Cinema of Austere Spectacle." Paper for symposium, "Europes and Contrary Tides: Filmmaking in the New Europe." University of Wisconsin-Madison, 14-16 March 2002. |
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http://www.davidbordwell.net/cv.htm
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| | Hong Kong cinema |
| | Hong Kong productions are exempt from the 20-film import quota set on foreign productions.Hong Kong investor stakes in cinemas in China increase from 50% to as high as 90%.Hong Kong investor stakes in audiovisual companies in China increase from 50%-70%.Producers have responded to this with cautious optimism. | | | Winnie Chung is assistant editor, features, of the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. | | | The four-letter acronym may not be heard much around Hollywood these days, but for much of the past year, CEPA has been the buzzword within the Hong Kong film industry. |
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/international/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000512465
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| | DCinemaToday.com |
| | Éclair Group announced today the creation of Éclair Digital Cinema, a new venture dedicated to D-Cinema. | | | DIGITAL CINEMA – In addition to Hollywood blockbusters, XDC is processing the digital prints of European films. | | | Barco Digital Cinema projector performs the premiere 3D demonstration on the China Digital Cinema Forum at BIRTV |
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http://www.dcinematoday.com
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| | Cinema of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. | | | Cantonese cinema virtually vanished in the face of Mandarin studios and Cantonese television, which became available to the general population in 1967; in 1972 no films in the local dialect were made (Bordwell, 2000). | | | In this landscape of pulp, there remained some ground for an alternative cinema or art cinema, due at least in part to the influence of the New Wave. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong
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| | Cinema of China - Chinese Movie - Chinese Art |
| | Cinema of China - Chinese Movie - Chinese Art | | | The cinema of Mainland China after 1949 has grown up somewhat suppressed by the Communist regime until recent times, although certain Chinese films are still being routinely censored or banned there but allowed to be played abroad. | | | The history of Chinese_languageChinese-language filmcinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China, and Cinema of Taiwan. |
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http://www.famouschinese.com/virtual/Cinema_of_China
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| | Confronting Modernity in the Cinema of Taiwan and Mainland China - Cambridge University Press |
| | This book is a cultural study of New Wave cinema that considers the experience of modernity and modernization in Taiwan and mainland China. | | | Confronting Modernity in the Cinema of Taiwan and Mainland China - Cambridge University Press | | | Confronting Modernity in the Cinema of Taiwan and Mainland China |
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http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/print.asp?isbn=0521806771&print=y
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| | eBay - card taiwan, Transportation, Asia items on eBay.com |
| | Rep of China Taiwan 50 Year Boy Scouts Postal Card 1961 | | | Rep of China Taiwan 64th Birday CKS Comm Postal Card | | | Taiwan 1996 Year of the Rat Postal Card specimens |
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http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=card+taiwan&newu=1&krd=1
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| | Taiwan |
| | Chen Wen-Tang is a new member of the younger filmmakers born one or two decade too late to join the Taiwan New Wave Cinema. | | | As a contrast, there is Huang Ming-chuan, who made the first true independent Taiwanese feature in 1990, "The Man from Island West," inaugurating a new fully independent cinema with a pioneering account of the problems faced by aboriginal tribes in Taiwan. | | | Taiwan New Wave Cinema directors may have treated film as a medium for self-expression, but they were constrained by the established power of the mainstream Taiwanese film industry. |
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http://www.asianfilms.org/taiwan/huigu/huigu3.html
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal Hong Kong Cinema in the '80s (1) |
| | The genres with old China backgrounds such as martial arts, historical costume epics, and the opera film had been the staples of Hong Kong cinema since its inception. | | | Hong Kong movies are the most representative examples of Chinese cinema as inheritors and carriers of the special characteristics of Chinese culture and popular folklore, as well as of Chinese people absorbing Western influence on the road to modernization. | | | In the ’80s, such genres practically vanished from the screen, with the exception of the ghost story genre. |
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http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/31/hk_achievement1.html
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| | Celluloid Wrappers: Costume in Hong Kong Cinema |
| | Costume in Hong Kong films, especially in the historical epics and martial arts extravaganzas, is an integral part of the art direction and cinematography. | | | (Her swinging handbag and his striking necktie also serve as plot points.) The film's director Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong's most celebrated -- and probably most frustrating -- art film visionary, works with cinematographer Christopher Doyle and editor/art director William Cheung on all of his movies, which are masterpieces of mood and light, sound and color. | | | The huge success of Ang Lee's 2000 martial arts/arthouse crossover epic, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has opened the eyes of many Western filmgoers to the sheer beauty of films set in historic/fantasy China. |
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http://www.electroephemera.com/cellwrap/hkcinema.html
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| | cinemataipeitaiwan.aspx |
| | Taiwan, keen to shake off China's claim of sovereignty over the island, has snubbed a special U.S. envoy, refusing to go back on a decision to scrap a policy-making council on unification, newspapers reported on Wednesday. | | | Dozens of Taiwan independence activists demonstrated outside the de facto US embassy here demanding Washington review its "one China" policy which opposes any change in the island's status. | | | Taiwan independence activists demand US change its 'one China' policy (AFP via Yahoo! |
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http://taiwan.info-magnet.info/cinemataipeitaiwan.aspx
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| | INTERVIEW: "Medallion" scribe Bey Logan |
| | It was the one time in the history of Hong Kong cinema that a group of westerners got together to fund and produce their own action film, and the project was a total disaster. | | | Do you think today's Hong Kong action stars such as Aaron Kwok and Andy Lau will be able to carry the torch or are we simply entering a new era of action cinema where CG effects and wires replace the years of skill a martial artist-turned-star once had to endure to succeed? | | | Hong Kong martial arts films often draw their plot's and characters from actual Chinese history. |
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http://www.kungfucinema.com/articles/2003-05-27-03.htm
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| | Asia Pacific Arts: Darkness and Light |
| | Then in a fortunate twist of economic desperation and political relaxation, came the birth of the Taiwan New Cinema movement in the early 1980s, ushering in one of the most fruitful new waves in the history of cinema, and paralleling similar developments in mainland China and Hong Kong. | | | The ascent of the Taiwan New Cinema movement on several levels (aesthetic, political, cultural) resulted inevitably in self-destruction due to its tragic flaw: the style that made it great suffocated the movement as well as the everyday local viewer. | | | Such cinematic innovation became internationally acclaimed in film festivals like Cannes, Venice, and Berlin, and became the fascination of film scholars and buffs around the world. |
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http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=24109
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| | Cinema of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The history of Chinese-language cinema has three separate threads of development: Cinema of Hong Kong, Cinema of China and Cinema of Taiwan. | | | Taiwanese cinema grew again after 1949, when the end of the Chinese civil war brought many filmmakers sympathetic to the Nationalists to Taiwan. | | | Taiwanese cinema is deeply rooted in the island's unique and rapidly changing history. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_of_Taiwan
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal Hong Kong Films |
| | A comprehensive look at a seminal decade in one of the world's great cinemas | | | Hong Kong's master of balletic blood 'n bulletplay speaks! | | | A Brief Historical Tour of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Film |
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http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/hongkongindex.html
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| | East Asian cinema - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The term East Asian cinema particularly refers to the large and well established film industries of China, Hong Kong and Japan, and the growing industries in Taiwan, North Korea and South Korea. | | | The scope of East Asian cinema is huge and takes in a wide array of different film styles and genres. | | | Martial arts films (notably the various styles of Hong Kong action cinema such as period Kung Fu, Action comedies and Wuxia) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_cinema
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| | The Japanese in HK Cinema |
| | Like the rest of Hong Kong cinema, the martial arts movie follows trends. | | | The period martial arts movie, a sub-genre of the sub-genre of the action movie, is a particularly unique part of Hong Kong cinema. | | | Part of the answer lies in the ever growing market for Hong Kong movies. |
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~suyat/ScotTopia/IMHO/hkjpn.htm
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| | Hong Kong Cinema |
| | Cinema & Performance Arts; Film; Asian Studies; China | | | This is the first full-length, English-language study of one of the world's most exciting and innovative cinemas. | | | Covering a period from 1909 to the "end of Hong Kong Cinema" in the present day, this unique book is packed with information about the films, the studios, the personalities, and the contexts that have shaped a cinema famous for its energy and style. |
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http://www.ucpress.edu/books/bfi/pages/PROD0009.html
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| | Trish Maunder's Top Ten Hong Kong Movies |
| | If I had been born in the Year of the Dragon or the Tiger, my fascination with China might make sense but, alas, I was born in the Year of the Pig (how flattering!). | | | This is a landmark Hong Kong film: it was a pioneering step toward high production values and fancy CGI to counteract the downward spiral of the cheap and shonky stuff that had become the staple of the region’s cinema. | | | One of the finest films in the period martial art movie revival of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and my choice as the best in the OUATIC series (by a whisker from one and three). |
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http://www.heroic-cinema.com/topten/topten_trish.htm
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| | Once Upon a Time in China II |
| | Once Upon a Time in China II takes its place beside its predecessor as an example of Hong Kong cinema at its entertaining best. | | | Tsui Hark, Rosamund Kwan, Jet Li Fans of Tsui Hark's dazzling martial arts epic Once Upon a Time in China won't be disappointed by this sequel, which serves up jaw-dropping kung fu with the same visual flair as the original. | | | A broadly sketched historical epic, Once Upon a Time II sports some particularly baroque bad guys in the form of the White Lotus Clan, a violent, quasi-mystical sect who want to cleanse 19th-century China of its Western influence -- specifically, greedy British imperialists. |
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http://www.findthefun.com/movies/m00/m0013628.htm
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| | Movies: an international directory |
| | Chinese cinema: reviews; Hong Kong cinema; Taiwan cinema; cinema of the People's Republic of China. | | | Devoted to all aspects of cinema and new media; the primary link for resources from the UC Berkeley Film Studies Program. | | | Ask a Cinematographer, a weekly column by Oliver StapletonS. |
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| | Once Upon a Time in China 2 |
| | Those curious of wanting to know what Hong Kong Cinema was really made of, then Once Upon a Time in China 2 will leaves the viewers stunned, happy and an epical and magical feeling. | | | This first sequel to the acclaimed Once Upon a Time in China continues the adventures of Legendary Martial Artist Wong Fei Hung, played once again by Jet Li. | | | With its ability to maintain a balance between a high standard of intense action and thought-provoking storytelling, Once Upon a Time in China II accomplishes something very few sequels achieve: it outshines the original. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/hero/hollywoodgossips/o_u_a_t_i_c_2_review.htm
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| | Taiwan |
| | The WTO accession of China and Taiwan in 2002 | | | March 2004, the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA) set up a | | | Taiwan is not a member of the International Labor |
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| | village voice > film > Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story, Once Upon a Time in China, and Once Upon a Time in China II, at Film Forum by J. Hoberman |
| | This Friday, Film Forum premieres a new 35mm print of the uncut Once Upon a Time in China, to be followed next week by its first and best sequel. | | | Speaking of second chances, it's no wonder that the American success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon would revive interest in Tsui Hark, the great genre resuscitator of post-1980 Hong Kong cinema. | | | In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (which contains an entire chapter devoted to Berlin's rant on cleaning), the artist notes approvingly that "she's the kind of person who always has the same problem as you do, only a million times more." |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0117/hoberman.shtml
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| | Once Upon a Time in China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The second film even has Sun Yat-sen (the father of modern China) as a character (though it is unlikely that the two ever met in real life). | | | The first two films of the series are among the most popular of the Golden Age of Hong Kong cinema (usually dated from 1986 to 1993) and are famous for their depictment of Chinese nationalism as well as their excellent action sequences. | | | For a set of Hong Kong action films, the Once Upon a Time in China films are surprisingly political (at least the first three). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_China
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Topic: Cinema of China