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1) The farewell
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 125 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The film revolves around four threads set in vastly different geographical and social milieus across modern-day China, ranging from the bustling southern metropolis of Guangzhou to the more rural townships in Jia's home province of Shanxi. [3] Set in current times and based on allegedly true events from the recent past, the film also draws on the history of wuxia stories.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (193 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Mandar
Description
A travelling scholar, intent on translating a Buddhist sutra, loses his way in the mountains. Time and space collapse around him as he continues his journey, encountering ghostly visitations amid a haunting fantasia of color, light and landscape. King Hu rose to prominence in the 1960s and 70s as a superb director of wuxia, a prevalent genre in Chinese-language film and literature built on ancient lore of swords, sorcery and chivalrous heroes. LEGEND...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Rated-R film.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (148 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set against the backdrop of Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1942, a young woman finds herself swept up in a radical plot to assassinate a ruthless and secretive intelligence agent. As she immerses herself in her role as a cosmopolitan seductress, she becomes entangled in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue, love and betrayal.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 140 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The most acclaimed and controversial film of the new Chinese cinema, The blue kite traces the fate of a Beijing boy and his family as they experience the political and social upheavals in 1950s and '60s China.
Publisher
s.n
Pub. Date
2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Xu Yun, a teenager from a remote village, travels to the big city of Zigong, Sichuan Province with no money and a brace of ducks in a basket on his back. His mission is to find and retrieve his errant father, who walked out on his family six years before.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 176 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Tibetan
Description
Filmed in the high grasslands of eastern Tibet, Summer pasture offers an intimate glimpse into the life of a young nomad couple and their infant daughter. Locho and his wife Yama live in Dzachukha, eastern Tibet - nicknamed '5-most' by the Chinese for being the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, and most remote county in Sichuan Province. They depend on their herd of yaks for survival, much as their ancestors have for generations. In recent years...
10) Still life
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
After a town is completely destroyed by a flood, the residents must try to rebuild their homes, the town, and their lives
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization.
12) Up the Yangtze
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A "farewell cruise" takes a luxury ship up the vast Yangtze River shortly before completion of the massive Three Gorges Dam. The passengers glimpse a rapidly changing countryside, while the local people struggle to adapt as their lives are irrevocably altered.
13) Nanking
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Tells the story of the Japanese invasion of Nanking, China in the early days of World War II and focuses on the efforts of a small group of unarmed Westerners who established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. Told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese survivors, archival footage, and chilling testimonies of Japanese soldiers, interwoven with staged readings of the Westerners' letters and diaries.
Publisher
Distributed by Universities Service Centre for China Studies, CUHK
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (59 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
This film focuses on a birth control official, Lü Guohua, in the remote northeastern village of Fanshen. Lu has to take things into his own hands in 2001 when a pregnant woman, defying the one-child-family policy, disappears to avoid mandatory abortion. Because of this, his good relationship with the village head is broken. But it happens to be election year in the village and a few tricks from Lü put an end to Li's reelection for the new term in...
15) Hooligan sparrow
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The danger is palpable as maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues travel to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, who gained notoriety with her advocacy work for sex workers'...
Publisher
Broken Pencil Productions
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, they have just two million minutes to prepare for college, and ultimately, a career. For some, high school is little more than a necessary rite of passage -- the standard American backdrop for prom nights, tailgate parties, and teenage rebellion, but for other students around the world, these two million minutes are spent with tutors and textbooks as they sharpen their minds...
17) Election
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 100 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Every two years the senior members of the Wo Shing Triad, the oldest gang in Hong Kong, elect an up-and-coming younger boss as their chairman. The two candidates they are voting on couldn't be farther apart in personality; Lok (Simon Yam) is a levelheaded businessman and Big D (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is a loud, obnoxious, violent criminal. When the voting does not go how some people would have liked, lines are divided and a gang war begins to form.
18) Santa's workshop
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 33 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Santa's workshop takes you to the real world of China's toy factories. Low labour costs attract more and more companies to China. Today more than 75% of our toys are made in China. But this industry takes its toll on the workers and on the environment. Workers tell us about long working hours, low wages and dangerous work places. Those who protest or try to organise trade unions risk imprisonment. The Swedish buyers blame bad conditions on the Chinese...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 60 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
It is often said that history is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. While a tremendous amount of literature has been devoted to the turning points of the Western History, little attention has been paid to the US and European policies towards the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and the Middle Kingdom's involvement in World War One. As today's China is gaining its undisputed superpower status, the world press speculates with tremor...
Publisher
Festival Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A journey into the hidden lives of China's forgotten Zen Buddhist hermit tradition. A look at the lives of zealot students, gaunt ascetics and wise masters living in isolated hermitages dotting the peaks and valleys of China's Zhongnan Mountain range. The Zhongnan Mountains have been home to recluses since the time of the Yellow Emperor, some five thousand years ago. Many of China's most realized Buddhist masters attained enlightenment in this very...
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