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Directed by Chuan Lu Columbia Pictures 5 stars Stillness and grit pervade Kekexili, the “last virgin wilderness in China,” a freezing, barren wasteland where comradeships are tested and the human spirit dies. “Mountain Patrol: Kekexili” discusses in disturbing yet beautiful terms the human heart’s simultaneous capacities for selfless kindness and selfish evil. In “Kekexili,” no one is innocent, and no one is guilty. Everyone bears responsibility for the destruction of man and nature. Director Chuan Lu’s touching...
...artfully executed—not through blunt, explicit lines, but through the carefully directed actions of his characters. The film’s settings seem almost drawn onto the screen, taken directly out of a picture book. Bandini’s apartment, in particular—with only a barren palm tree visible through the window and a small desk and dirty bed—looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have...
...that's right about the nation. Like its neighbor Bangalore, this ancient Muslim fort town is a hub for science and technology. But Hyderabad is also an example of what's still wrong with India. In the last few years, thousands of impoverished farmers have committed suicide in the barren, drought-stricken land outside the metropolis. For some, despair has turned to anger at the shiny city on the horizon, and their forsaken fields are now a front line in a little-noticed war between security forces and an estimated 10,000 Marxist guerrillas. In a land-mine attack...
...began. Two years later, in the peace treaty of Nanjing, China did agree to open four more ports; to stationing foreign consuls at each port; and to treat British and Chinese officials as equals. The Chinese would also pay a sizeable indemnity; and the British would get the (then) barren rock of Hong Kong to maintain merchants and their own magistrates.The treaty did not mention opium.Even then, the Chinese saw opium as the true cause of strife. Eventually, it became just one entry in a long catalogue of Western sins that made China an innocent victim of foreign aggression...
...fall of 1991, at the age of 18, Yiyun Li reported to the barren city of Xinyang for a year in the Chinese army. The government had decreed that any student bound for Beijing's Peking University, as Li was, first had to complete a period of military training and political re-education?an ideological vaccine in the wake of Tiananmen. Li had been a high school student in Beijing during the protests, too young to take part herself, but she knew what had happened. That knowledge was dangerous. "Imagine a zipper on your mouth," her mother told Li before...