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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Not One Less, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Not One Less, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2001, China
Wei Minzhi, 13 year-old student in a rural village middle school in Bebei Province, called upon as a substitute teacher in Shuiquan Primary School where […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Incense, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Incense, directed by Ning Hao, 2002, China
Buddhist Monkpious and living in a small village called Nan Xiao Zhai in Shaanxi Province where the villagers’s life revolves around live stock; feels important […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Happy Time, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Happy Times, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2000, China
Old Zhao 老赵, a factory worker in his late 50s forced to step down from his post during China’s reform and transformation from a state planned economy to […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Happy Together, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Happy Together, directed by Wang Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 1999
Ho Po-winga British national living in Hong Kong; a gay man in his mid 30s; travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina with his boy friend; lives the […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Getting Home, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
“Getting Home” (luo ye gui gen: fallen leaves return to roots)
directed by Zhang Yang, 2007, ChinaLao Zhao, Originally a peasant in his 50s from northern China, Lao Zhao came a long way to Shenzheng, a […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, For the Children, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Pretty Big Feet, directed by Yang Yazhou, 1996, China
Zhang Meili (“pretty”), name embarrasses her because she has big feet that traditional Chinese men who are used to seeing women in bond feet consider […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Farewell My Concubine, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Farewell My Concubine, directed by Chen Kaige, China, 1994
Cheng Dieyi: mother a prostitute who gives him up as a child to a Peking Opera troupe that trains brutally to play the role of the legendary […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Ermo, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Ermo, directed by Zhou Xiaowen, China 1994
Ermo, a peasant, industrious and self-assertive; married with one son; sexually frustrated because husband is impotent for years; feels unwanted and becomes […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Eat Drink Man Woman, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Eat Drink Man Woman, directed by Ang Lee, Taiwan, 1994
A line taken from the Classical Text by Mencius:
“It is human nature to want food and sex.”
中文分析Mr. Chu, a widower for 16 years living with hi […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Comrades, Almost A Love Story, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
directed by Peter Chan, Hong Kong 1996 中文分析
Li, Xiao-jun, in his 20s, arrives at Hong Kong (HK) in search of a better life with thousands of other “mainlanders” who take advantage of China’s open-door […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, City of Life and Death, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
City of Life and Death , directed by Lu Chuan, 2009, China
Lu Jianxiong 陆剑雄, A military commander in the Nationalist Army who, during the Nanjing massacre in 1938, is killed along with close to three […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Chinese Box, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Chinese Box, directed by Wayne Wang, 1997 Hong Kong
John (played by Jeremy Iron), a British journalist with years of experience reporting Hong Kong’s politics, economy and people’s personal lives; […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Blind Shaft, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Blind Shaft, directed by Li Yang, 2003, China
Yuan Fengming, a 16 year-old boy and a high school student living in China’s rural area, with father always away as a coal miner to support the family; […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Aftershock, on the site Self-Representation and Self-Reinvention in Film 4 years, 4 months ago
Aftershock, directed by Feng Xiaogang, 2010, China
a film adaptation of the novel by Chinese Canadian author Zhang Ling, 2006Fang Daqiang 方大强 A truck driver working for a state-owned facto […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 20 Reading Exercise, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 6 months ago
Lesson 20 Reading Comprehension on […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 11 Reading Exercise, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 6 months ago
Lesson 11 Reading Comprehension on […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 9 Reading Exercise, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 6 months ago
Lesson 9 Reading Comprehension Exercises
第九课的阅读练习 (1) wkbk p. 159
柯林：雪梅，你钢琴弹 […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 8 Reading Exercise, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 6 months ago
Lesson 8 Reading Comprehension Exercises
第八课阅读练习 (1) wkbk p.141
开学已经 […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 7 Reading Exercise, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 6 months ago
第七课阅读练习 125页－126页
妈妈: 大明，七点了，你三点半就上网，到现在已经三个多小时了。
儿子: 七点了？糟糕，我跟小美约好七点钟一起去听演唱会，又要迟到了。
妈妈: 你这孩子！看你急急忙忙的样子。七点钟要去听演唱会，为什么不早点准备？
儿 […]
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Rujie Wang wrote a new post, Level 2, Lesson 10 Texts, on the site Language Materials 4 years, 7 months ago
Text 10
Vocabulary
Regular […]
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