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‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies [PDF]

, 2014
Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese cinema
Feng, Lin
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Historia, legenda, fantazja. Filmowe portrety Pierwszego Cesarza

Kwartalnik Filmowy, 2010
Wcześniej znany głównie sinologom, Pierwszy Cesarz zaczął budzić powszechne zainteresowanie, kiedy w 1974 roku odkryto terakotową armię w jednym z największych i najbogatszych na świecie zespołów grobowych. Autorka kreśli życiorys cesarza Qin Shi Huanga,
Alicja Helman
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Cinematic Amnesia as Remembering: Coming Home (2014) and Red Amnesia (2014)

Arts, 2018
This article examines the trope of amnesia—the crisis of memory—in two recent Chinese-language films dealing with traumatic memories of the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath: Zhang Yimou’s Coming Home (Guilai, 2014) and Wang ...
Ying Bao
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COLOUR SYMBOL IN ZHANG YIMOU’S MOVIES

VNU Journal of Foreign Studies, 2020
Zhang Yimou is one of the most representative directors for the fifth generation of Chinese cinema. His films have earned critical acclaim from film critics and among them many have won prestigious awards in China as well as international film festivals. One of the things that appealed to his film was his unique and effective use of colors.
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Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad

Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, 1998
Just when it seemed as if every variety of the gangster genre had been played out, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou sprang a pleasant surprise with his film Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao wai po qiao, 1995). The film is probably the last collaboration between the director and Gong Li, the leading actress in all his previous films(1) and his off-
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Substantially Altered Local and Systemic Immunity in Ischemia‐Free Versus Conventional Liver Transplantation (Adv. Sci. 23/2026)

Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 23, 23 April 2026.
Ischemia‐Free Liver Transplantation On this cover, planted trees represent transplanted livers under contrasting conditions: summer symbolizes ischemia‐free transplantation, whereas winter depicts conventional cold preservation. In winter, resource‐starved birds fiercely consume fruits, illustrating amplified inflammation as peripheral monocytes ...
Tao Luo, Shuai He, Shirui Chen, Dongmei Ye, Shibo Zhang, Di Liu, Dawei Zou, Linhe Wang, Huadi Chen, Jinghong Xu, Huanjie Liu, Ruiting Liu, Xi Tan, Yitong Wang, Jiayi Zeng, Runbing Mo, Yuexin Li, Yuyi Zhang, Tanyiyang Ruan, Tielong Wang, Zehua Jia, Yu Jia, Tongdi Fang, Yimou Lin, Xiaorui Liu, Yunhua Tang, Maogen Chen, Qiang Zhao, Anbin Hu, Weiqiang Ju, Yi Ma, Dongping Wang, Xiaofeng Zhu, Schlegel Andrea, Yuan Zhai, Kwan Man, Tullius G. Stefan, Yifang Gao, Jinxin Bei, Xiaoshun He, Zhiyong Guo   +40 more
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Reinterpretation of the meaning of ‘return’ in the film coming home as a reconstruction of collective memory of the new era

Cogent Arts & Humanities
As an adaptation of the scar literature novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, the change of its title to ‘Coming Home’ in its film adaptation by the fifth-generation Chinese director, Zhang Yimou, triggers curiosity.
Minah Febriani Budianto, Manneke Budiman, Nurni Wahyu Wuryandari   +2 more
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Transnationalism and the Decentralization of the Global Film Industry [PDF]

, 2015
As in other aspects of society (politics, economics), the film industry appears to be undergoing a process of decentralization (still in its infancy) by which Asia is, if not overtaking, at least matching its level of influence with that of European and ...
Jordi, Codó Martínez
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Positive Microbiology in the Movies

Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2025.
How ‘Positive Microbiology’ is portrayed in commercial movies and its potential as a tool for education and engaging general audiences to counteract germaphobia. Image done with freepik. ABSTRACT Microbes are essential for sustaining life in our planet.
Manuel Sánchez‐Angulo
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El camino a casa: una vuelta al amor primigenio

Káñina, 2006
Este artículo inicia con una descripción de la vida y obra del renombrado director de cine Zhang Yimou. Plantea la importancia de la película "El camino a casa", como consolidación de su carrera cinematográfica, y efectúa un análisis teórico y puntual de
Juan Hidalgo Solís
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