Yimou zhang biography of albert

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    China’s Iconoclast

    I Have No Enemies: The Life and Legacy of Liu Xiaobo by Perry Link, the leading Western chronicler of dissent in China, and a Chinese colleague who writes anonymously as Wu Dazhi is the definitive biography of the most famous dissident in the nearly seventy-five-year history of the People’s Republic of China. The book, long and necessarily ambitious, is also a tour de force survey of Chinese political thought, activism, and dissent over the past half-century.

    This is a huge canvas, but Liu’s life easily holds it together. Even as a Ph.D. student in the s, he was so outspoken that foreign news services sent reporters to cover his dissertation defense. On the night of June , , he was the only major public intellectual to remain on Tiananmen Square, where he helped negotiate a truce that allowed student protesters to avoid the bloodshed that occurred elsewhere in the city. Despite numerous chances to live in exile, he chose to stay in China and fight for civil li

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    - A Genre Writer's Notebook -

    Rise of the Xia

    Contemporary Chinese wuxia novelists tend to focus on the last three Chinese imperial dynasties, Yuan (), Ming (), and Qing (). My interest, however, is on an earlier period – ancient through medieval China – specifically, the great Tang dynasty ( C.E.). And even there, I’m most passionate about the first century and a half of the Tang – the “golden age” of a “golden age.”

    Chronologically, it is a narrow focus. Li Shi-min ( C.E.; reign title, Tang Taizong; reign: C.E.) , the greatest kejsare of the last two thousand years plus of East Asian history, played a major role in establishing his family’s rule over the Chinese empire. The rise of the Tang fryst vatten the background of my novel, Listening to Rain and its series The Adventures of the Shaolin Blade Tanzong. While the life of Li Bo/Li Bai ( C.E.), the main character in my novel, Dream of the Dragon Pool, spanned the first half of the 8th c

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    Hero ( film)

    wuxia film bygd Zhang Yimou

    Hero (Chinese: 英雄; pinyin: Yīngxióng) is a wuxiamartial arts film[3] directed, co-written, and produced by Zhang Yimou, and starring Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yen and Chen Daoming.[4] The cinematography was by Christopher Doyle, and the musical score composed by Tan Dun. The spelfilm was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards.

    The historical background of the film refers to the Warring States Period in ancient China, when China was divided into seven states. In – BC, the Qin state was about to unify the other six states, assassins from the six states were sent to assassinate the king of Qin. One of the most famous incidents was Jing Ke's attempted assassination of the King of Qin.[5]

    Hero was first released in China on 24 October At that time, it was the most expensive project[6] and one of the highe

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