This is not a war movie but a history drama, about the War of Liberation and the founding of The People's Republic of China, "with the best cinema technology in China and the best Chinese actors/actresses including those from Hong Kong" according to the media. It has been released in mainland China, will be released in Hong Kong on Oct. 1, and may be in Taiwan in Oct. It will also be released internationally with English subtitle. For those who are unfamiliar with modern Chinese history this movie will be a good introduction, for those familiar with Chinese history of 1945-1949 he/she would find it fascinating because every story in this film has a true story behind in history. Here is a trailer:
No one can understand China, Chinese revolution and modern Chinese history without understanding Long March. The Long March (October 1934 – October 1935) was not only an historic military journey of 6,000 miles, along which the Red Army soldiers fought and died heroically, only fewer than 6000 (some said 3000) of some 80,000 soldiers survived the epic journey, but also it became the central event in Chinese revolution, a symbol for the revolution itself, and a source of inspiration ever since. Here is a documentary film in English, again interpreted from American point of view.
In 1964 when China and France simultaneously announced the establishment of diplomatic relations, it stunned the world, especially the superpower(s), this was long before 1972 when China and US established diplomatic relations. Many people in China know General Charles de Gaulle for his decisive courageous move to establish the full bilateral diplomatic relations at the height of the cold war, however, few know it was Edgar Faure (埃德加.富尔)， a geopolitical visionary, who initiated and negotiated the process. To my knowledge he was also an advocate/supporter for P. R. China to regain UN seat.
Edgar Faure was twice the Prime minister of France, in 1952 and 1955-1956, and held many ministerial posts. More details about Edgar Faure can be found here, or better go to Association Edgar Faure (French).
I learned about this recently after reading a translated chapter of Edgar Faure's memoir <Le Serpent et la Tortue> posted by galanga (Thanks!) and later Chinese articles, it was very interesting... For this post, I want to post the Chinese version of the same chapter which was originally on the website of Charles de Gaulle Foundation, but no longer exists, I saved it from Google cache.
. <Poet Mao Zedong> is a video series that documented the historical background of Mao Zedong's poems. When asked about his poems, Chairman Mao once said "poems express will". His poems were indeed soaked with his deepest personal feelings and aspirations, people say: to understand him one must understand his poems. No exaggeration, Mao Zedong is the last giant in classical Chinese poetry even though he wrote fewer than 80 poems, the artistic conception of his poems reached the highest level. He is a political poet and he is a poetic politician.
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