Movies: Yu Shizhi

An old teahouse in Beijing serves as the stage for a drama that unfolds over several tumultuous decades of modern Chinese history, from the waning days of the Qing dynasty to the eve of the People's Republic....

Adapted from a novel of the same title, this film depicts a young woman’s transformation from housewife to loyal Communist. This process is presented as “natural” – possessed of inherent logic rather than merely “incidental”. Hence, the film is reall...

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Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary....

Drama written by Su Shuyangin in 1978. The feature film adaptation was produced by Beijing Film Studio in 1980. Fang Lingxuan, a veteran Chinese medicine doctor, devotes himself to the research of new drugs for coronary heart disease and receives the...

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In 1918, shortly after the Soviet Socialist Revolution in October, the Red Army soldier Savelyev went to Moscow and was assassinated by counter-revolutionaries at a small station. The sons Vasya and Misha have just lost their mothers, and now they ha...