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Chinese Culture and Film

2012-04-19T07:40:28Z

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* [[Zhang Yimou]] -- [[User:Keeley X.|Keeley X.]]

* [[Success of Chinese Film Since 1984]] -- [[User:Keeley X.|Keeley X.]]

* [[Comedies (Screwball)]] -- [[User:Keeley X.|Keeley X.]]

* [[Chen Kaige]] -- [[User:RisR.|RisR.]]

* [[Beijing Film Academy]] -- [[User:RisR.|RisR.]]

* [[Jackie Chan]] -- [[User:RisR.|RisR.]]

* [[Infernal_Affairs_and_The_Departed]] -- [[User:Jon|Jon]]

* [[Hong_Kong_Film_Awards]] -- [[User:Jon|Jon]]

* [[Enter_The_Dragon]] -- [[User:Jon|Jon]]

* [[Contemporary Chinese and A Beautiful Life]] -- [[User:Jacob|Jacob]]

* [[Ip Man]] -- [[User:Jacob|Jacob]]

* [[Ip Man 2]] -- [[User:Jacob|Jacob]]

* [[Chinese Emotions]] -- [[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]]

* [[Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress]] -- [[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]]

* [[Chinese Film Generations]] -- [[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]]

Chinese Culture and Film

2012-04-19T07:39:04Z

Hollyspendlove: /* Student contributions / mid-term papers / oral reports / reading in turns */

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2012-04-19T07:32:30Z

Hollyspendlove:

Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954 to an educated middle-class family. He had to go to a reeducation
camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he completed
high school and university, where he studied art history. In 1984, he left China for France on a
scholarship. There, he became passionate for movies and became a director. ''China, My Sorrow'' (1989) was his first.
He lives in Paris and writes in French.

Dai Sijie wrote and directed. ''Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress''-( 2002) the story of two young
men, Ma and Luo, who are sent to a country village to be reeducated during the Cultural Revolution.
They become friends with a young seamstress. When they get their hands on some banned classic they
begin reading to the seamstress to educate her. The novels help the young friends cope during their
difficult time in the small village. The movie shows the power of reading literature and the changes an
education can make in a person’s life.

--[[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]] 07:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

2012-04-19T07:28:46Z

Hollyspendlove: Created page with 'Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954 to an educated middle-class family. He had to go to a reeducation camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. Aft…'

Dai Sijie was born in China in 1954 to an educated middle-class family. He had to go to a reeducation
camp in rural Sichuan from 1971 to 1974, during the Cultural Revolution. After his return, he was able to
complete high school and university, where he studied art history. In 1984, he left China for France on a
scholarship. There, he acquired a passion for movies and became a director. China, My Sorrow (1989).
He lives in Paris and writes in French.

Dai Sijie wrote and directed. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress-( 2002) the story of two young
men, Ma and Luo, who are sent to a country village to be reeducated during the Cultural Revolution.
They become friends with a young seamstress. When they get their hands on some banned classic they
begin reading to the seamstress to educate her. The novels help the young friends cope during their
difficult time in the small village. The movie shows the power of reading literature and the changes an
education can make in a person’s life.

--[[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]] 07:28, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Chinese Emotions

2012-04-19T07:26:05Z

Hollyspendlove:

Documented cultural variations exist in the expressions of emotion between Chinese and Western cultures.

Chinese are more likely to somatize (express as symptoms of the body) episodes of depression.

They use more social and fewer emotion words than do English speaking.

The Chinese believe emotional moderation promotes individual health and interpersonal harmony.

Moderation in facial expression

Children are socialized to control their impulses. A lack of emotional moderation is believed to have dire consequences both for the individual and for the social group.

Inability to moderate and control one's emotions is considered debilitating to one's mental and physical health.

To the Chinese, being mentally healthy implies the control of the emotions, the cultivation of the mind, and the moderation of behavior. The mentally healthy person is one who does not get into explosive fits of anger, get excessively happy, or become easily irritated.

Harmonious group relations.

Chinese managers are more emotionally reserved, avoid conflict more than British managers.

More collectivistic or more oriented toward the group.

Western cultures are individualistic. Value individuality, the signifigance of personal and emotional expression

Chinese place more importance on the community as a collective, emphasize interpersonal harmony.

Cultural differences in the way mothers narrate and discuss past events with children.

Western mothers use a more child-centered approach and give more detailed autobiographical narratives.

Chinese mothers use more mother-centered approach focusing on appropriate behaviors, rules and social obligations.

Sources:

Doan, Stacey, "The Way She Speak: Maternal Conversation Stayle and Children's Developing Autobiographical Memory and Sense of Self." http:www.human.cornell.edu/hd/Outreach_extension/ index.cfm.

Tsai, Jeanne L. and Robert W. Levenson. "CulturalInfluences on emotional responding: Chinese American and Euopean American dating couples during interpersonal conflict." ''Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. '' 1997. v 28 n5 p 600.

Tsai, Jeanne L., Diana I. Simeonova, and Jamie T. Watanabe. "Somatic and Social: Chinese Americans Talk About Emotion"

--[[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]] 06:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Chinese Emotions

2012-04-19T07:25:26Z

Hollyspendlove:

Chinese Emotions

2012-04-19T07:09:59Z

Hollyspendlove:

Documented cultural variations exist in the expressions of emotion between Chinese and Western cultures.

Chinese are more likely to somatize (express as symptoms of the body) episodes of depression.

They use more social and fewer emotion words than do English speaking.

The Chinese believe emotional moderation promotes individual health and interpersonal harmony.

Moderation in facial expression

Children are socialized to control their impulses. A lack of emotional moderation is believed to have dire consequences both for the individual and for the social group.

Inability to moderate and control one's emotions is considered debilitating to one's mental and physical health.

To the Chinese, being mentally healthy implies the control of the emotions, the cultivation of the mind, and the moderation of behavior. The mentally healthy person is one who does not get into explosive fits of anger, get excessively happy, or become easily irritated.

Harmonious group relations.

Chinese managers are more emotionally reserved, avoid conflict more than British managers.

More collectivistic or more oriented toward the group.

Western cultures are individualistic. Value individuality, the signifigance of personal and emotional expression

Chinese place more importance on the community as a collective, emphasize interpersonal harmony.

Cultural differences in the way mothers narrate and discuss past events with children.

Western mothers use a more child-centered approach and give more detailed autobiographical narratives.

Chinese mothers use more mother-centered approach focusing on appropriate behaviors, rules and social obligations.

--[[User:Hollyspendlove|Hollyspendlove]] 06:40, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

2012-03-04T08:24:05Z

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Street Angel

2012-03-04T07:14:22Z

Hollyspendlove: /* Essay */