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- Forbidden city : a novel / by Hua, Vanessa,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman's opulent residence--a forbidden city unto itself--that she learns that the girls' job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei makes a beeline toward the Chairman. Mei gradually separates from the other recruits to become the Chairman's confidante--and paramour. As he fends off political rivals, Mei faces down schemers from the dance troupe who will stop at nothing to take her place, as well as the Chairman's imperious wife, who has schemes of her own. When the Chairman finally gives Mei a political mission, she seizes it with fervor, but the brutality of this latest stage of the revolution makes her begin to doubt all the certainties she has held so dear. Forbidden City is an epic yet intimate portrayal of one of the world's most powerful and least understood leaders during the most turbulent period of modern Chinese history. Mei's harrowing journey toward truth and disillusionment raises questions about power, manipulation, and belief, as seen through the eyes of a passionate teenage girl"--- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976; Communism; Teenage girls;
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- The grandmaster [videorecording] / by Leung, Tony Chiu Wai,1962-; Wong, Kar Wai,1958-; Zhang, Zhen,1976 October 14-; Zhang, Ziyi,1979-; Anchor Bay Entertainment, Inc.; Annapura Pictures.; Weinstein Company.;
Ziyi Zhang, Chang Chen, Tony Leung.Watch an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kung fu master, Ip Man, who mentored Bruce Lee. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China's last dynasty, a time of chaos, division, and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts.PG.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Ye, Wen, 1893-1972; Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Foreign films; Martial artists; Martial arts films.; Martial arts; Motion pictures, Chinese.;
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- Day in the country [videorecording] / by Gabriello,1896-1975,actor.; Bataille, Sylvia,1912-1993.; Braunberger, Pierre,1905-1990.; Brunius, Jacques-B.,actor.; D'Arnoux, Georges,actor.; Faulkner, Christopher,interviewee (expression),filmmaker.; Fleischer, Alain,1944-filmmaker.; Fontan, Gabrielle,1873-1959,actor.; Kosma, Joseph,1905-1969,composer (expression); Marken, Jane,1895-1976.; Maupassant, Guy de,1850-1893.Partie de campagne.Videorecording.; Montero, Germaine,singer.; Perez, Gilberto,1943-writer of supplementary textual content.; Renoir, Claude,1914-1993,director of photography.; Renoir, Jean,1894-1979.; Renoir, Marguerite,actor,editor of moving image work.; Temps, Paul,actor.; Criterion Collection (Firm); Janus Films,production company.; Pantheon Productions,production company.;
Song sung by Germaine Montero ; editors, Marguerite Houle Renoir, Marinette Cadix ; music, Kosma ; director of photography, Claude Renoir.Sylvia Bataille, Georges Saint-Saens, Jeanne Marken, Gabriello, Jacques Borel, Paul Temps, Gabrielle Fontan, Jean Renoir, Marguerite Renoir.A tenderly comic idyll about a city family's picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother and grown daughter by two local men.PG.DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital monaural.- Subjects: Families; Feature films.; Foreign films; Motion pictures, French.; Picnics; Romance films.;
- © 2015., Criterion Collection,
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