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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 140 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The most acclaimed and controversial film of the new Chinese cinema, The blue kite traces the fate of a Beijing boy and his family as they experience the political and social upheavals in 1950s and '60s China.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxii, 245 pages)
Language
English
Description
"In a race to capture new audiences, Hollywood moguls began courting Chinese investors to create branded entertainment on an international scale--from behemoth theme parks to blockbuster films--after China's 2001 World Trade Organization entry. Hollywood Made in China examines this compelling dynamic, where the distinctions between Hollywood's "Dream Factory" and the "Chinese Dream" of global influence become increasingly blurred. What is revealed...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People's Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices, all while facing fierce opposition from a male-dominated CCP leadership from the Party Central to the local government. Wang Zheng extends this investigation...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
A powerful vampire attempts to gather the blood essence that will enable him to walk in daylight. The only thing standing in the way of his success is a trio of skilled vampire slayers. Reeve has razor-sharp fighting skills and has an edge over your typical vampire slayer. His new partner, Gypsy, also possesses formidable skills. Reeve learns that his younger sister Helen is romantically linked with a new-age vampire prince who possesses the final...
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Qia Ko Fung and Lai Mei Ka are a successful couple whose separation requires a new nanny to look after their troublesome son Qiao Pak Go, but the boy's constant misbehavior has made it impossible to find a babysitter at any price...until the boy's grandfather interviews for the job--as a woman.
6) Astro Boy
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in futuristic Metro City. When a brilliant scientist's young son dies, he secretly creates a powerful robot boy he names Astro Boy. Unable to fulfill the grieving man's expectations, Astro Boy embarks on a journey in search of acceptance. Along his way he experiences betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the father who had rejected him.
Publisher
Star TV
Pub. Date
c1993
Edition
Letterboxed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Set in China's warlord period in 1913, the film focuses on the experiences of three women: a general's daughter who is involved with revolutionary guerrillas, a singer, and a travelling performer.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd and sometimes illicit jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.
Series
Miriam collection volume 5
Publisher
Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jeremy, a big-hearted owner of a small New York diner, tries to soothe Elizabeth's jilted heart with his blueberry pie. But only after going on a year-long cross-country odyssey does she realize love was right at her doorstep all along.
10) Hero
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
With supernatural skill and no fear, a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
11) Shanghai kiss
Publisher
Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling actor discovers more about his Chinese background when he takes a trip to Shanghai after inheriting his grandmother's house.
12) Seven swords
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Two-disc ultimate ed., widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (153 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In northwest China, seven men with magic swords help the local martial artist group Tian Ti Hui prevent the slaughter of innocent villagers by an evil Manchurian warlord.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
High in the mountains of the Sichuan province of China, a 10-year-old mute orphan boy, Lu, rescues a lost panda cub separated from its mother. As Lu struggles to protect the cub from trappers, the two form a unique connection. He names the panda cub Pang Pang (or 'Chubby') and gradually finds the confidence to speak again. When the cub is captured, Lu is forced to choose between his new companion and helping Pang Pang find its way home.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Takada is an aging Japanese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law, Rie, summons him to the hospital. When his son refuses to see him, Rie gives him a videotape about the work his son was doing on a documentary film in a remote region of China's Yunnan province. Still troubled by the relationship, Takada decides to go to China and complete his son's work in part...
15) The painted veil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their journey brings meaning to their relationship and gives them...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
China, Later Tang Dynasty, 10th Century. On the eve of the Chong Yang Festival, golden flowers fill the Imperial Palace. The Emperor returns unexpectedly with his second son, Prince Jai. His pretext is to celebrate the holiday with his family, but given the chilled relations between the Emperor and the ailing Empress, this seems disingenuous. For many years, the Empress and Crown Prince Wan, her stepson, have had an illicit liaison. Feeling trapped,...
17) Flowers of war
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (142 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
The dangerous streets of Nanjing throw together a group of opposites, a flock of shell-shocked schoolchildren, a dozen seductive courtesans, and a renegade American posing as a priest to save his own skin, or so he thinks, all seeking safety behind a walled cathedral. Trapped by marauding soldiers, over the next few days the prejudices and divides between them will fall away as they unite around a last ditch plan to protect the children from impending...
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Letterboxed ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Princess Wushuang and the future emperor Zheng De escape their home to look for what life is really like, and soon the princess pretends to be a male warrior and the emperor-to-be must disguise himself as a woman in order to compete with his own sister for the hand of a commoner.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Z ed.; widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Goku is a powerful warrior who protects the Earth from an endless stream of rogues bent on dominating the universe and controlling the mystical objects known as Dragon Balls. In order to fulfill his adoptive grandfather's dying request, Goku seeks to find the great master Roshi and gather all seven Dragon Balls, of which he has one. He must get all seven in order to prevent the evil Lord Piccolo from succeeding in his desire to use the Dragon Balls...
Series
Dragon dynasty volume 16
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special collector's ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Unable to defend himself and his family from a ruthless enemy, Kao hires two master swordsmen who want the money offered for wine and women. The swordsmen soon discover that Kao has an evil plan of his own and their friendship and trust are put to the test through multiple challenges.
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