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...Wei, a visiting scholar at Princeton who fled China after participating in the Tiananmen demonstrations, said that progress has already been made towards improving China as long as the Tiananmen incident remains strong in people's minds...
...confident about China's future because June 4, 1989 laid the foundation for change," Wei said...
Unfortunately, not all the actors effectively convey these different levels of emotion. When Harrison's doctor, Clare Scott (Victoria Wei), forgets her professional detachment and supports his decision to die, this important dramatic moment loses potential impact because Wei is unable to communicate her romantic feelings for Chick. As a result, when Scott admits her feelings to Anderson and in the final scene attempts to kiss Harrison goodbye, these actions appear false...
TURNING to the world stage, Harvard could invite Nelson Mandela. If the University is really daring, it could extend an invitation to Wei Jingsheng, a Chinese democrat who has been in jail since 1979. Now that Anatoly Sharansky and Mandela are free, Wei has the unfortunate distinction of being the political dissident who has been imprisoned for the longest time. Harvard could embarrass the Chinese dictators and give a nudge to one of the world's last nightmarish Communist regimes...
...movie seems enshrouded by fate, so are its characters. Jinshan (Li Wei) runs a dye factory in northwestern China in the 1920s. This vile old man has taken a young wife, Ju Dou (Gong Li), who is made a slave to his viciousness. In bed he gags and harnesses her and rides her like a donkey, and the night bleeds with her shrieks. But the degradations stir Ju Dou's willfulness and sensuality. Now she undresses before the avid eyes of Tianqing (Li Baotian), her husband's adopted son. By abandoning herself to him, she hopes to liberate the captive...