Related Films | Week 3
Check out these related films available in the Reed film and video library!
China: dynasties of power, 48 min, 1995.
Time Life's "Lost civilizations" series. Study the "dynasties of power" from the 2nd century B.C. through the rise of the first emperor to discover the achievements of ancient China. While uniting a vast land the Chinese built the 2,600-mile Great Wall, invented paper, printing, the compass and the world's first system of justice.
The Two coasts of China, 60 min, 1992.
Discusses the clash of Western and Chinese cultures as China's ports were transformed into trading centers and technological advances displaced traditional ways of working and living. Stories of the Mongol Invasions, Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion are recreated using original production footage shot in Mongolia, China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Writers & Revolutionaries, 60 min. 1992.
The lives of Lu Xun, China's greatest modern writer, and Kita Ikki, the famous Japanese philosopher, are highlighted. Both revolutionaries explored the traditional strengths and weaknesses of their societies, with Lu Xun writing scathing satires aimed at China's ineffective leadership. Kita Ikki, on the other hand, watched with alarm as his radical teachings were distorted by right wing extremists and used to design a monstrous blueprint for a Japanese world empire. Details how China became vulnerable to the threat of the encroaching Japanese.
China in Revolution, 1911-1949, 120 min., 1989.
Made for television broadcast on PBS. This documentary recounts the 38 years between 1911 and 1949, during which China was transformed from a centuries-old empire into the world's largest Communist state. It was a transformation that affected hundreds of millions of people.
Amazing Marriage Customs, 91 min, 1992.
In Chinese with English subtitles. Chinese-made film depicting the "exotic" marriage customs of ethnic minorities in the PRC.
Where horses fly like the wind, 55 min., 1992.
Joint production of NHK (Japan) and CCTV (China), one in a series of travel films in China's northwest. Cross the Tian Shan Mountains and meet the Kazakhs, commonly referred to as Cossacks; visit the Western Land, home to the legendary Heavenly Horses ridden by Genghis Khan; and enter the no-man's land between the Chinese and Soviet border
China: beyond the clouds, 2 videos, 240 min, 1994.
Filmmaker Phil Agland reveals the everyday drama and passion of contemporary China, a country "steeped in tradition and wracked by change," by focussing on life in one small town in border region.
