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...nominations, but initially weren't allowed to play in Chinese theaters. To Live, Zhang's darkly humorous and ultimately tragic masterpiece about a family's struggle to survive three decades of political upheaval, won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 1994, but is still largely off-limits to mainland viewers...
...result, international cineasts have at times labeled Zhang a dissident director?a role he has no desire to play. Zhang wants to work in China?not abroad or underground?and fill Chinese theater seats. Not only is he determined to work within the mainland's still conservative system, but he views the task of making movies that satisfy both censors and his own artistic standards as a healthy exercise?one that has forced him to become a better filmmaker. With Hero, he has risen to that challenge...
...director that Zhang found his true calling and an all-consuming lifelong passion. With Red Sorghum, Ju Dou and Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang proved himself in the art houses abroad. But many mainland critics remained unimpressed, accusing him of "exoticizing" the nation's feudal past and poverty-stricken countryside for foreigners. They felt he should play cultural ambassador, using his camera to burnish China's overseas image. Chinese audiences share this ambivalence. Younger moviegoers have an almost universal description of why they dislike Zhang's fixation on the past and on the countryside: "The films are really just...
Ma’s campaign also remained impervious to Lee’s attempt to raise an often contentious ethnic issue. In Taiwan, those who are descendants from parents who fled a Maoist mainland China often come under question about their loyalties to the island...
...whose parents left the mainland following Mao Zedong’s rise to power, said he would be on the side of the Taiwanese public and focus on Taipei’s problems, not the province?...