Vistopia
For Chinese-Language Cinema
Film Debate

Listening Guide

1.00:27Huang Jianxin’s use of actors: appearance and performance
2.00:56His preference for xiangsheng and sketch-comedy performers
3.01:45Liu Zifeng’s understated acting
4.04:21The physiognomy of Niu Zhenhua
5.06:43Is Feng Gong a good film actor?
6.08:18Zhang Jiayi’s quietly mischievous screen persona
7.09:29Wang Zhiwen and Jiang Shan
8.12:15Wang Jinsong
9.12:50Sketch comedian Ju Hao
10.13:49Fan Wei
11.14:02A digression: Chinese intellectuals
12.14:09The most important thing about the young-cinema movement was its oppositional stance
13.15:30Reasoning backward from the present to history
14.15:45Absurdism with Chinese characteristics
15.19:02The eternal dilemma of Chinese intellectuals confronting power
16.21:12 Historical figures: Wang Shijie and Chen Bulei
17.22:47 The dream of becoming an imperial tutor, and the mentality of national salvation overwhelming enlightenment
18.23:28 Confronting a changing China and suddenly losing one’s voice
19.26:19 Noncooperation is not the same as prudent self-preservation
20.27:17 The values of modern enlightenment cannot be bypassed

Selected Quotes

Episode editor: 林深
2025.07.25
Audio in Chinese

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