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Escape from the 21st Century (Li Yang, 2024)

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This scene is most likely a spite to an old superstition. In old traditional opera troupes, "Dan roles"* were not allowed to sit on boxes that held costumes and props because women were considered to hold Yin energy (while men held Yang energy). Yin energies were considered bad luck, especially if the women were to be on their menstrual cycle, sitting on the boxes will tamper the energy of the items in it. This tradition has passed down from generation to generation, some directors in the modern day still believe in the superstition and will not allow women on set to sit on apple boxes or crates. *Dan roles - Dan is the term for female roles in Chinese opera. They may be played by both male and female actors.

田耕纪 · Romance on the Farm · 2023

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Grand Princess Liyang in antique apple? (I haven't actually watched nif, but I thought she looked cool in one of the character guides I scrolled through)

she's an incredible character, so here's one of her most badass moments

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Blind Mountain (Li Yang, 2007)

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Blind Shaft 盲井 (2003, dir. Li Yang)

LI YANG: I really did not at all understand the problems that coal miners face and what their feelings toward life are until I went there. And there were some unimaginable surprises. The bedding that most of the coal miners sleep on is actually as dirty and black as the coal itself; there are actual pieces of coal in their beds. They seldom change clothes when they get out of the coal mine. And usually there is a shortage of water---at least, clean water---in mining areas. The water there has very high levels of coal and sulfur contamination. So the coal miners do not wash themselves very often. They will roughly wash their hands and faces, but they seldom take baths or showers. They think coal is clean, which really astonished me.

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One incident left a particularly deep impression on me---and showed me first hand just how dangerous the mining industry can be. I was visiting a coal mine and because of my camera, people there took me for a journalist. I was not on my guard because a friend of mine, who was a local official, had brought me there. I was scouting locations in Shanxi and, having liked the place quite well, started taking pictures. Soon after, a motorcycle arrived with two men who stayed close to me. I just ignored them and continued taking pictures. Soon another motorcycle came and they asked what I was doing. I said, “Nothing, I’m just looking around.” At that moment my cell phone rang. It was my friend; he asked me whether or not there were strangers on motorcycles around. When I said yes, he told me to get out of there immediately. I hurried back to the car and found those guys there, and they all had guns drawn. I was very scared, and my friend asked me to get into the car while he talked to those people. Pretty soon people from the Public Security Bureau showed up as well, and they were ready to arrest me. They could have made up some excuse to arrest me, or even kill me---they had thought I was a journalist. They kept our car surrounded until they were thoroughly convinced that I was not a journalist, and only then did they let us go. Later on I heard that less than an hour after they had been notified of my presence, all the small coal mines in that county were shut down. Word had spread that a journalist---supposedly me---was sent by the central government to secretly investigate the mines.

MICHAEL BERRY: So most of these coal mines are actually illegally operated?

LY: Not most of them---virtually all of them! These coal mines are almost 100 percent illegal operations. And the mines where we shot had similarly bad conditions.

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LY: I think the greatest thing I learned from making this film has to do with what it taught me about the social realities of China today. The shooting process of the film was very strenuous, and looking back, I really feel that the experience taught me just how precious life is. The scenes shot underground in the mines were especially difficult. We shot those scenes in coal mines more than 700 meters underground. We had to look for a coal mine with low gas, because we had to use light. Nevertheless, gas is invisible, and it can permeate the mine at any time. Wherever there is coal, there is usually gas. There can be a gas explosion and collapse in the mine at any time. Both the actors and myself had been hit by falling pieces of coal while we were underground. It was really like being in hell. There are support beams in the mines that are supposed to help prevent a collapse, but actually most of these beams are made from wood, and at times you could even hear the sound of the wood splitting under the pressure, which was one of the most terrifying sounds I have ever heard. Many people in the crew left halfway through shooting. Some of my actors left as well, forcing me to cut some scenes. But what could I do? When someone left, all major scenes they were in had to be cut. So there were a lot of changes made during the shooting. But tough as the conditions were, shooting underground, we had to keep on going.

Michael Berry, Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers

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China WNT portraits for Women’s World Cup 2019

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So Donald Trump—the man who cheated on all of his wives, the man who boasted of “grabbing women by the pussy,” the man with a record of paying hush money to sex workers—might be a regular at the “spa” where Robert Kraft got busted....

And Li Yang, the “self-made entrepreneur” (aka human sex slave trafficker) is a major Trump supporter. Ms. Yang sounds like someone congress might want to subpoena and talk with, in a publicly televised congressional hearing.

I would say that I’m almost surprised, but I haven’t been surprised by anything Trump and the Republican Party has done since Obama was elected.

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