
For Chinese-Language Cinema
Listening Guide
1.Huang Jianxin’s use of actors: appearance and performance
2.His preference for xiangsheng and sketch-comedy performers
3.Liu Zifeng’s understated acting
4.The physiognomy of Niu Zhenhua
5.Is Feng Gong a good film actor?
6.Zhang Jiayi’s quietly mischievous screen persona
7.Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan
8.Wang Jinsong
9.Sketch comedian Ju Hao
10.Fan Wei
11.A digression: Chinese intellectuals
12.The most important thing about the young-cinema movement was its oppositional stance
13.Reasoning backward from the present to history
14.Absurdism with Chinese characteristics
15.The eternal dilemma of Chinese intellectuals confronting power
16. Historical figures: Wang Shijie and Chen Bulei
17. The dream of becoming an imperial tutor, and the mentality of national salvation overwhelming enlightenment
18. Confronting a changing China and suddenly losing one’s voice
19. Noncooperation is not the same as prudent self-preservation
20. The values of modern enlightenment cannot be bypassed
Selected Quotes
2025.07.25
Audio in Chinese
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