Word: jia
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...grant from the Rotterdam Film Festival. In 1996, Wang Xiaoshuai made Frozen under the pseudonym Wu Ming (literally No Name), for fear of government retribution; another of his films, So Close to Paradise, a noirish study of gangsters in Shanghai, was reshot, recut and withheld for five years. Jia Zhangke shot Xiao Wu (Pickpocket, 1997) despite the censors' rejection of his script; he was banned from directing, but went ahead anyway. Jia got funds for his next film, Platform (2000), in part from Japanese star Takeshi Kitano...
...wonder the "heroes" of these films are often silent, sullen resisters. The title character of Jia's quietly powerful Xiao Wu is a thief with scruples: he won't give in to the system. He is spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas...
...island highway (#18) and winds steadily upward through magnificent forests of cypress, fir and hemlock. The first day's walk is a long one?six hours to scale 1,000 vertical meters to Paiyun cottage, two hours below the summit. Fellow hikers are plentiful, and their encouraging cries of jia you (literally, add gas) echo through the hills...
...culture itself for keeping Tibetans poor, ignorant and not above suspicion of cannibalism, this sudden interest shows the government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about Tibetan culture has come available, so more people see its value," says Zhao Jia, a travel executive who next month will release an off-the-track guidebook to Tibet's farthest reaches...
...despite Jiang's declaration of war on financial scams, cases involving powerful officials often get held up or dismissed because of "lack of evidence." Jiang himself is not above protecting his friends. When the Xiamen case was on the verge of implicating the wife of Beijing party chief Jia Qinglin, a friend of Jiang's, the President effectively blocked the investigation by appearing on television last January with Jia beside him. The corrosive effects of corruption have bitten deeply into China's body politic and will take more than a few decrees to be washed away...