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Black Snow (Chinese: 本命年; pinyin: běn mìng nián) is a 1990 Chinese drama film directed by Xie Fei.It was written and adapted from a novel by Liu Heng. [2] It was entered into the 40th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding single achievement. [3]
Chinese drama genres range from romance, comedy, horror, family drama, sports, thriller, wuxia, xianxia, nationalist, political or a mixture of these in the form of ancient, historical, Republican era or modern contemporary settings. There is a significant preference for romance television series in Asia.
The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle [1]) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia. They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters , corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.
Traditionally, Chinese theatre has placed great emphasis on sung performances, [6] with highly stylized acting prominent in the Peking and Cantonese operas. [7] Western-style spoken-word dramas were introduced in the early 1900s, with the Tokyo-based student troupe Chunliu She performing Black Slave's Cry to Heaven – considered one of China's first Western-style theatrical performances ...
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (Chinese: 天浴) is a 1998 Chinese drama film directed by Joan Chen in her directorial debut, who co-wrote the screenplay with Geling Yan.Based on Yan's 1981 short story "Celestial Bath", the film is set in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution's Down to the Countryside Movement in People's Republic of China. [2]
Similarly, in 1978, there was less than one television receiver per 100 people, and fewer than ten million Chinese people had access to a television set (in 2003 there were about 35 TVs for every 100 people, and roughly a billion Chinese people had access to television). Although relatively few people had televisions, 36% of people experienced ...
The official specification defines standard-definition broadcasting as 576i at 50 fields per second and high-definition broadcasting in 720p at 50 Hz or 1080i at 50 Hz. All major transmitters were completed by 2008, covering at least 75 percent of the Hong Kong population. [5] The current coverage reaches 99% of the population. [6]
Yellow Earth (simplified Chinese: 黄土地; traditional Chinese: 黃土地; pinyin: Huáng tǔdì) is a 1984 Chinese drama film.This film is telling a story of a young, village girl who bravely resists old-dated customs and searches for freedom.