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...went back to the remote reaches of her homeland--to the edge of Sichuan, near the Tibetan steppes--to make Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. The film, based on Tian Yu, a 1995 novel by Chen's childhood friend Yan Geling, is about a naive urban teenager who, like more than 7 million other "educated youth" during the Cultural Revolution, is "sent down" to the countryside to be instructed by the heroic peasantry; instead she learns harsh lessons about the brutality of men in power. The authorities refused to give a permit to the project, so Chen shot without...
...rescued her friend with Tian Yu, a novel that stirred in Chen both a memory of the Cultural Revolution and a long-deferred desire to direct. Chen could have shot her film in the familiar cocoon of a movie studio. But to be faithful to Xiu Xiu's story meant filming it near Tibet. "The location was 13,000 ft. high," Chen says. "It was hard to breathe. We didn't take showers for a month. We were all sniffing each other. Lunch on the set was always late and cold. Or it wouldn't arrive...
...want to work together, but we don't want to lose our autonomy. And this problem is going to always be here," said Thomas S. Yu '00, co-president of the Chinese Student Association...
...want to work together, but we don't want to lose our autonomy . And this problem is going to always be here," said Thomas S. Yu '00, co-president...
Time to procrastinate--you have all spring break, after all--and head down to Tremont Street. Written in the 30s by Cao Yu, "Dean of the Chinese playwrights," The Wild Land (adapted into English by Doris Chu) tells the tale of a young woman who strains to escape the pressures of her family in turn of the century China. An escaped convict offers her a chance to reach a place of ceaseless joy. March 18-28. Tremont Theater. 219 Tremont...