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After Zhang Yimou's Withdrawal from Cannes

Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, 1999
Not One Less (Yige dou buneng shao) was missing from Cannes this year; but in film circles, the "withdrawal" has aroused even more comment and speculation than Not One Less.
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The Wuxia Films of Zhang Yimou: A Genre in Transit

2018
Kinane’s chapter examines the role of the modern xia warrior as a figure of change and transition both within the historical continuum of the wuxia genre itself, and as a harbinger of cinematic transnationalism in the twenty-first century. In particular, Kinane analyses three wuxia films by Zhang Yimou which have successfully transitioned from the ...
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Tan Dun and Zhang Yimou between Film and Opera

Journal of Musicological Research, 2010
Tan Dun's opera, The First Emperor—premiered in 2006 at the Metropolitan Opera and staged by the Chinese film director Zhang Yimou—was based on a preexistent film and was intended as a sequel to their 2002 film Hero. This cluster of films and performances, the intricate connections between Chinese opera and film, and Tan's and Zhang's prior work in ...
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Chinese Movies and History Education: The Case of Zhang Yimou’s ‘To Live’

History Compass, 2011
Abstract Using film to promote historical understanding is not a new phenomenon. However, such use presents difficulty when dealing with non‐Western history, as sufficient care must be given to not engender historical misunderstanding and the reinforcement of stereotypes. Much of the research on teaching with film
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On Zhang Yimou's Hero : Counter-response

Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 2009
AbstractZhang Yimou's film Hero is an investigation into culturalism, or the demand, embedded in the nation-state form, that all nations represent themselves through a unique and readily recognizable culture. Hero implies that this demand is a trap, and that the only way to global recognition among the ‘family of nations’ is through more direct ...
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Negotiating China’s Linguistic Diversity In Zhang Yimou’s Hero

The Columbia Journal of Asia, 2023
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Gender and Adaptation: The Phases of Zhang Yimou’s Cinema

<p dir="ltr">Zhang Yimou is a celebrated Chinese director who established his international fame through film adaptations from successful Chinese literary works. This project examines 12 adaptations in four phases of Zhang’s directorial career: 1987–1991: <i>Red Sorghum</i>, <i>Judou</i>, <i>Raise the Red Lantern</
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Women beware women: Zhang Yimou's 'Raise the Red Lantern'

2006
Certainly in the world of this film, women need to beware women, to paraphrase the title of Thomas Middleton's 1657 tragedy, and it is not altogether inapt to reference this Jacobean work in which women behave treacherously towards each other with tragic results.
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Zhang Yimou's Hero and the Globalisation of Propoganda

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 2006
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To Live is to Desire: Cultural Production and the Phantasmatic Nation in Zhang Yimou’s To Live

The Columbia Journal of Asia
This essay examines media dissemination in mid to late twentieth-century China, during and after the Cultural Revolution, as China established its place in the modern world. Through a psychoanalytic inquiry into the revolutionary romance genre and fifth- generation Chinese film—in particular, Zhang Yimou’s film To Live (1994)—this essay will analyze ...
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