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Red Sorghum (novel)
''Red Sorghum: A Novel of China'' () is a Chinese-language novel by Mo Yan. Its five parts were published serially in various magazines in 1986 and republished together as a single novel in 1987. It was Mo's first novel and remains one of his best-known works. The novel is a compilation of five novellas: "Red Sorghum", "Sorghum Wine", "Dog Ways", "Sorghum Funeral", and "Strange Death". "Red Sorghum" was published in '' People's Literature'' (Issue 3, 1986), "Dog Ways" was published in the April 1986 issue of ''Shiyue'' ("October" magazine); "Sorghum Wine" in the July 1986 issue of ''PLA Arts'', "Sorghum Funeral" in the August 1986 issue of ''Beijing Wenxue'' and "Strange Death" in the November–December issue of ''Kunlun'' magazine. The novel was translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt in 1993 as ''Red Sorghum: A Novel of China'', but has also been referred to as "The Red Sorghum Clan" in some sources. ''Red Sorghum'''s plot revolves around three generations of the Shando ...
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Mo Yan
Guan Moye (; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary". Donald Morrison of ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller. He is best known to Western readers for his 1986 novel '' Red Sorghum'', the first two parts of which were adapted into the Golden Bear-winning film '' Red Sorghum'' (1988). Mo won the 2005 International Nonino Prize in Italy. In 2009, he was the first recipient of the University of Oklahoma's Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Biography Mo Yan was born in February 1955 into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, the People's Republic of China. ...
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Golden Bear
The Golden Bear () is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival and is, along with the Palme d'Or and the Golden Lion, the most important international film festival award. The bear is the heraldic animal of Berlin, featured on both the Coat of arms of Berlin, coat of arms and flag of Berlin. History The winners of the first Berlin International Film Festival in 1951 were determined by a West German panel, with five winners of the Golden Bear, divided by categories and genres. Between 1952 and 1955, the winners of the Golden Bear were determined by the audience members. In 1956, the FIAPF, Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films formally accredited the festival, and since then, the Golden Bear has been awarded by an international jury. The award The statuette shows a bear standing on its hind legs and is based on the 1932 design by German sculptor Renée Sintenis of Berlin's coat of arms of Berlin, her ...
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Magic Realism Novels
Magic or magick most commonly refers to: * Magic (supernatural), beliefs and actions employed to influence supernatural beings and forces ** ''Magick'' (with ''-ck'') can specifically refer to ceremonial magic * Magic (illusion), also known as stage magic, the art of appearing to perform supernatural feats * Magical thinking, the belief that unrelated events are causally connected, particularly as a result of supernatural effects Magic or magick may also refer to: Art and entertainment Film and television * ''Magic'' (1917 film), a silent Hungarian drama * ''Magic'' (1978 film), an American horror film * ''Magic'', a 1983 Taiwanese film starring Wen Chao-yu * Magic (TV channel), a British music television station Literature * Magic in fiction, the genre of fiction that uses supernatural elements as a theme * '' Magic: A Fantastic Comedy'', a 1913 play by G. K. Chesterton * ''Magic'' (short story collection), a 1996 short story collection by Isaac Asimov * ''Magic'' ...
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Chinese Novels Adapted Into Television Series
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Novels By Mo Yan
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with the ...
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1986 Chinese Novels
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ...
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The Big Red Book Of Modern Chinese Literature
''The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature: Writings from the Mainland in the Long Twentieth Century ''is an anthology of Chinese literature edited by Yunte Huang and published in 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company. Huang, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara,Lovell, Julia.‘The Big Red Book of Modern Chinese Literature,’ Edited by Yunte Huang. ''The New York Times''. February 7, 2016. Retrieved on March 5, 2016. described the book as a "search for the soul of modern China" in the introduction. Contents The book is 600 pages long and has works spanning about 100 years until its publishing date, with almost 50 authors represented. The works were translated by multiple people. At the beginning of the anthology, Huang reveals that copyright conflicts prevented the inclusion of works that would have otherwise been a part of the anthology, specifically '' Love in a Fallen City'' by Eileen Chang and '' Fortreess Besieged'' by Qian Zhongshu. The w ...
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Zheng Xiaolong
Zheng Xiaolong (; born November 30, 1953) is a Chinese TV and film director and screenwriter. Biography Zheng was born in 1952. His father was a soldier. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1970 and worked as a publicity officer. After retiring from the military, he became a journalist for Beijing People's Broadcasting Station. In 1978, he enrolled at the branch campus of Peking University, and after graduating in 1982, he started working at Beijing Television Studio. Personal life In April 1985, the 3rd National Short Story Award Ceremony was held in Nanjing, Jiangsu, where Zheng and Wang Xiaoping () met during the conference. In 1990, Wang pursued advanced studies in the United States, two years later, Zheng married her in America, and she gave birth to a son. Selected filmography *''Stories from the Editorial Board'' (1991)—China's first sitcom *''A Native of Beijing in New York'' (1992)—first Chinese TV series shot in the US, see ''Beijinger in New ...
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Red Sorghum (TV Series)
''Red Sorghum'' ( zh, c=红高粱, p=Hóng Gāoliang) is a 2014 Chinese television series based on Nobel laureate Mo Yan's 1986 novel of the same name. Directed by Zheng Xiaolong, it also features the highly anticipated return of actress Zhou Xun to television after 10 years. The series chronicles the struggles of the protagonist Jiu'er (played by Zhou) in rural Shandong province in early 1930s. It aired simultaneously on four satellite television channels from 27 October to 17 November 2014 for 60 episodes. Cast *Zhou Xun as Jiu'er / Dai Jiulian *Zhu Yawen as Yu Zhan'ao * Huang Xuan as Zhang Junjie *Yu Rongguang as Zhu Haosan *Qin Hailu as Shu Xian * Matt William Knowles as AP Press Reporter Production To reproduce the scenes of the novel, the Gaomi local government planted more than 200 hectares of sorghum. The field, now known as "Red Sorghum TV Production Base", became a shooting site for the TV series. More than 500 local residents performed as extras in the TV show. Recep ...
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Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europe's " Big Three" film festivals alongside the Venice Film Festival held in Italy and the Cannes Film Festival held in France. Furthermore, it is one of the " Big Five", the most prestigious film festivals in the world. The festival regularly draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. About 400 films are shown at multiple venues across Berlin, mostly in and around Potsdamer Platz. They are screened in nine sections across cinematic genres, with around twenty films competing for the festival's top awards in the Competition section. The major awards, called the Golden Bear and Silver Bears, are decided on by the international jury, chaired by an internationally recognisable cinema personality. This jury and other specialised Berlinale ju ...
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Red Sorghum (film)
''Red Sorghum'' is a 1987 Cinema of China, Chinese film about a young woman's life working in a distillery for Kaoliang wine, sorghum liquor. It is based on the first two parts of the novel ''Red Sorghum (novel), Red Sorghum'' by Nobel laureate Mo Yan. The film marked the directorial debut of internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Yimou, and the acting debut of film star Gong Li. With its lush and lusty portrayal of peasant life, it immediately vaulted Zhang to the forefront of the Cinema of China#Rise of the fifth generation, Fifth Generation directors. The film won the Golden Bear Award at Berlin Film Festival. Synopsis The film takes place in a rural village in China's eastern province of Shandong during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It is narrated from the point of view of the protagonist's grandson, who reminisces about his grandmother, Jiu'er. She was a poor girl who was sent by her parents into a pre-arranged marriage with an old man, Li Datou, who owned a sorghum wine ...
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