Article: Becoming a part of life: an interview with Zhang Yimou. (Interview)

In the past half decade, Zhang Yimou has become China's internationally nationally most famous filmmaker, but to make that simple observation only reveals the visible (to non-Chinese) tip of the hidden iceberg where politics and culture meet in contemporary China. His first film as director, Red Sorghum (1988), was immensely popular in China as well as top prize winner at the 1988 Berlin Film Festival. However, later works that were acclaimed overseas, Ju Dou (1990) and Raise the Red Lantern (1991), had been banned in China by hardline bureaucrats who dominated Chinese film culture following the 1989 Beijing massacres. Zhang Yimou had been able to make those films because ...

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