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Chiang Ch'ing was, for Communist China, a particularly stylish woman; at one point in her interviews she distributed black midi-length dresses to her several female aides and demanded that they wear them at dinner that night. She had her own collection of "bourgeois" films by such foreign...
She also tried to apply her principles to the movies, inveighing against "the bourgeois system of centering on the director" and decreeing that films should be made according to "democratic centralism. " The result: the Chinese film industry was and remains shattered.
But as for herself, Chiang Ch'ing made no secret of her love for more bourgeois drama. She asked Witke:
Therese. Bourgeois crisis in the French provinces. At the Brattle Theater, daily at 7:40.
His dancers, jockeys and sultry bathers sculpted over and over, ultimately sum up lives of hard work, frustration and all-too-frequent boredom. They suggest a sense of physical inadequacy to do justice to abstract ideals of ballet, horse-racing or even bourgeois femininity. Degas expressed this despair with regard...