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Chinese Documentary Films (Study Guide): Crazy English, in Public, Up the Yangtze, Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, Diamond in the Dunes, the Square

Chinese Documentary Films (Study Guide): Crazy English, in Public, Up the Yangtze, Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, Diamond in the Dunes, the Square


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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: Crazy English, in Public, up the Yangtze, Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, Diamond in the Dunes, the Square, Crude Oil, Delamu, Round Eyes in the Middle Kingdom, Umbrella, Dong, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, Please Vote for Me, Super, Girls!, the Real Shaolin, Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square, Railroad of Hope, Queer China, Useless, San Yuan Li, Gai Shanxi and Her Sisters, Meishi Street, Last House Standing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 70. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Crazy English is a 1999 Chinese documentary directed by Zhang Yuan. The film premiered along with Zhang's Seventeen Years at the 1999 Locarno International Film Festival. It established Zhang's position as a "legitimate" director after years of working independently from, and often at odds with, the Chinese authorities. In contrast to earlier films, like East Palace, West Palace (1997), Crazy English was produced with the cooperation of the state-owned Xi'an Film Studio, which enjoys a "presented by" billing in the film's credits. The film follows one of the People's Republic of China's most popular motivational speakers, Li Yang, the founder of "Crazy English." Li is known for his stadium-sized presentations where he exhorts his audiences to engage in mass recitations of English phrases and idioms, often with a strong nationalist bent: "Conquer English to Make China Stronger!." Li, however, has also courted controversy. Despite the fact that he teaches a foreign language, Li has never left China, a fact not revealed in the film until the end. Other common criticisms,, including accusations that Li Yang is a "nationalist huckster" and that his methods do not actually improve English-speaking ability, receive a much more subtle presentation in Zhang's film. The film follows Li on ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=1910731


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155335438
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Crazy English, in Public, Up the Yangtze, Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, Diamond in the Dunes, the Square
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155335430
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 118 gr


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