#chinese documentary

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24 City (2008), dir. Jia Zhangke

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does anyone know of any good ancient chinese history documentaries?

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15 essential documentaries to watch to understand China

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15 essential documentaries to watch to understand China

A selection of documentaries that will help you to understand modern China.

Since Mao’s death, with the consequent opening of China to the world, China has been told by many directors who described the process of modernization that the country was experiencing.

Read: 15 essential documentaries to watch to understand China

#ChineseDocumentary, #DocumentaryFilm

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40+ Chinese Movies, Anime, Documentaries to watch on Netflix, June 2019

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40+ Chinese Movies, Anime, Documentaries to watch on Netflix, June 2019

Top Movies, Tv Shows, Anime, Documentaries from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan available on Netflix.

Read: 40+ Chinese Movies, Anime, Documentaries to watch on Netflix, June 2019

Topic: chinese-movies-netflix

#ChineseDocumentary, #ChineseMovies, #Netflix

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死靈魂 / Dead Souls (2018, 王兵 Wang Bing) 震撼的電影。 震撼於王兵作為一個 documentarian 的理解與尊敬，歷史不斷重演，我們該往何處？ 王兵的《死靈魂》是一句重擊般的扣問，也是對人，對生命的一首輓歌。

Trailer:  https://youtu.be/dXwxiqzI-5Y https://youtu.be/izaCWELZ9aM

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Hanzi. dir. Mu-Ming Tsai. 2016.

A Latin font consists of about 600 characters at the most but it’s about 10 000 to 20 000 characters for a set of Chinese font 

Hanzi is a documentary exploring the link between visual design, culture and  Chinese typography. Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai, this film discusses the different perspectives on the transition from traditional Chinese handwriting to modern age digitized typography and how language shapes cultural identity. Hanzi is made in collaboration with filmmakers and creatives from Hong Kong, Taipei, New York and London. It also features interviews with Shaolan, founder of Chineasy; Sammy Or, a Hong Kong based veteran font designer; Ri Xing Type Foundry, the oldest lasting traditional Chinese letterpress type foundry in the world; and Akira Kobayashi, a distinguished Japanese Roman font designer.

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The Posterist (海报师), dir. Hui See-Wai (许思维). 2017. 

Yuen Tai-Yung is a Chinese artist known for his creation of iconic Hong Kong movie posters that include notable films of Bruce Lee, the Hui Brothers, Karl Maka, Stephen Chow, Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.

Born in Zhejiang in 1941 and raised in Shanghai, Yuen moved to Hong Kong as a teenager. He was working in advertising agencies when, in 1975, he chanced upon a commission to design the poster for The Last Message, the second film of the Hui Brothers (Michael, along with Sam and Ricky).

Yuen would go on to create posters for more than 200 films, including 17 by the Hui Brothers, before he retired and migrated to New Zealand in 1992. The self-taught painter is revered for his cartoonish illustrations, which manage to both portray an uncanny likeness of the film’s stars and an ingenious ability to distill a movie’s plot down to its essence.

The Posterist is a passion project of first-time documentary filmmaker Hui See-Wai, who is the son of comedy legend Michael Hui Koon-Man. Many of the film posters for Michael Hui Koon- Man’s biggest hits were painted by Yuen Tai-Yung.

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Up the Yangtze dir. Yung Chang (张侨勇). 2007.

Up the Yangtze is a 2007 documentary film directed by Chinese-Canadian director Yung Chang. The film focuses on people affected by the building of the Three Gorges Dam across the Yangtze river in Hubei, China. The theme of the film is the transition towards consumer capitalism from a farming, peasant-based economy as China develops its rural areas

The setting of the film is a riverboat cruise ship floating up the Yangtze river. Two young people are the focus of the film as they work aboard the ship. One is a sixteen-year-old girl from a particularly poor family living on the banks of the Yangtze near Fengdu, named "Cindy" Yu Shui. She is followed as she leaves her family to work on one of the cruise ships serving wealthy western tourists at the same time as her family is being forced from their home due to the flooding that accompanied the building of the dam. The film shows her acclimatization to the consumer economy of tourism as well as modern technology of the cruise ships, juxtaposed with her family and other older citizens who are displaced from a rural lifestyle to cities where they must pay for the vegetables they used to grow on their own.

The film is rich in detail about ways of life, dreams, and aspirations, and seeks to provide a view into the reality of modern Chinese life.

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