Word: zhen
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...dismays Beijing's snobby culture mandarins: They prefer gilded, high-art films, and the fact that Feng's proletarian movies actually make money is seen as doubly galling. "We are shocked by Feng's superficial motives, outdated film skills and astonishing lack of creativity," sniffs Beijing film critic Wang Zhen. "It falls under the banner of commercial filmmaking...
...force. The book's editors suggest that the current leadership holds the same conviction. But China's economic openness--begun, ironically, by Deng in 1978--has surely created a challenge to the monopoly on power enjoyed for so long by so few. "Those goddamn bastards!" party elder Wang Zhen shouts at one point in the papers. "Who do they think they are, trampling on sacred ground like Tiananmen so long!? They're really asking for it! We should send the troops in right now to grab those counterrevolutionaries!" Wang died in 1993. One wonders what he would have made...