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Red Cliff

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Three Kingdoms in ancient China is one of the most fascinating historic period with lots of compelling tales of political intrigue, plot twists, larger-than-life characters, fantastical, famous battles, mind-boggling tactics and the novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, fleshed out the historical structure further with fascinating myths and legendary details. This part of history has [...]

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Beijing’s economy slows in first three quarters

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Beijing’s economic growth rate lagged behind the national average during the first three quarters, according a municipal statistics bureau report on Wednesday.
The city registered a total output value of 758.63 billion yuan ($111.13 billion) in the first nine months, up 9.1 percent from the same period last year, but below the national average of 9.9 [...]

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Formation of the Chinese Civilization

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China is an East Asian country with a large territory, a huge population and an ancient history. With written records dating back 4,000 years, it is recognized as one of the four great ancient civilizations of the world, together with ancient Egypt, Babylon and India. Moreover, it is the only ancient civilization that has continued [...]

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China Movie Channel restores old films and TV shows

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Beijing-based China Movie Channel, which broadcasts five SD channels and one HD channel to more than 800 million viewers throughout China, has installed a new color image restoration system to restore some of the station’s older films and TV shows.
The China Movie Channel, including CCTV6, airs programming 24 hours a day to all of China [...]

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Dragon Lady: Being Anna May Wong

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Dragon Lady: Being Anna May Wong

DRAGON LADY: BEING ANNA MAY WONG is about the 1930s film star Anna May Wong, the first Asian American actress to achieve international acclaim. During her life time, Anna May made over 60 movies and was much adored by audience on both sides of the Atlantic. Behind the glamorous film [...]

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The Emperor’s Shadow

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The Emperor’s Shadow

The Emperor’s Shadow
 
Directed by Zhou Xiaowen
Produced by Chen Kunming
Zhang Pimin
Written by Lu Wei
Starring Jiang Wen
Ge You
Xu Qing
Ge Zhijun
Set in third century BC China, the story of Emperor’s Shadow revolves around the relationship between Ying Zheng (Jiang Wen), king of Qin, and later First Emperor; and the musician Gao Jianli (Ge You). The two [...]

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Flirting Scholar

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Flirting Scholar

Flirting Scholar
Flirting Scholar DVD cover
Directed by Lee Lik-Chi
Produced by Stephen Shiu
Written by Vincent Kok
Lee Lik-Chi
Stephen Siu
Starring Stephen Chow
Gong Li
Nat Chan
Cheng Pei-pei
Liu Chia Hui
Music by William Hu
Cinematography David Chung
Peter Ngor
Editing by Ma Chung-Yiu
In the Ming Dynasty, there exists a legendary au pair of four scholars, whose literary and artistic skills were the talk of South [...]

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so close to paradise

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The film follows two young migrant workers. Young innocent Dong Zi (Shi Yu) is a pole carrier or coolie eking out a meager existence carrying heavy loads from place to place. His friend and roommate Gao Ping (Guo Tao) is from the same home village, but unlike Dong Zi, is older, more cynical, and has [...]

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Ashes of Time redux (东邪西毒)

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Director:Kar Wai Wong
Writers:Louis Cha (novel)
Kar Wai Wong (screenplay)
Release Date:10 October 2008 (USA) more
Genre:Action
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The best way to approach Ashes of Time Redux — Wong Kar Wai’s ravishing swirl of an ancient Chinese martial-arts saga, restored and expanded from his original 1994 production —is to prepare to get lost. I mean literally, thrown without [...]

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Be There or Be Square

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Film name: Be There or Be Square
Director: Feng Xiaogang
Leading Roles: Ge You    Xu Fan
Date of Premier: 1998
Film Introduction:
Liu Yuan is a young Chinese immigrant to the United States. He dose not have a permanent job. Li Qing, who recently came to the US, is hired to housesit for some rich folks while they are on vacation.
However, [...]

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