Word: inge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...entranced by it. Projected onto a portable screen, the film creaked and jerked with age, the actors' movements speeding unnaturally or grinding slowly. The sound track-it was the original one-was practically inaudible. Nor were there Chinese subtitles, a lack that did not daunt Chiang Ch'ing, who knew the screenplay perfectly from beginning to end. In fact, her running Chinese narration murmured into my ear was far clearer than the English dialogue...
...permissible for her to enjoy such bourgeois stars as Garbo while strictly prohibiting the Chinese masses doing the same thing? Chiang Ch'ing's response to that question...
Western movies were not Chiang Ch'ing's only nonproletarian indulgence. Indeed one night she seemed far more bourgeois than revolutionary...
...ing recalled especially one time when, with pouring rain leaking through the window, she sat motionless on the stone bed by a small oil lamp waiting for her mother, who did not return until the rain stopped at dawn many hours later. She learned to "walk in the dark" in search of her mother when she was five or six, and though ghosts held no terror for her, she developed a violent fear of wolves. She retained the scars caused by a ravenous pack of dogs who attacked her one of those nights...
When Chiang Ch'ing and her mother moved to Tsinan, a city long renowned for its theaters, Chiang Ch'ing found her vocation...