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Title: Woman with a movie camera: Ning Ying's cinematic visions document a rapidly changing China.(International Journalism)
Author: Zhang Zhen
Publication: Nieman Reports (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2004
Publisher: Harvard University, Nieman Foundation
Volume: 58 Issue: 1 Page: 84(2)Distributed by Thompson Gale
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Recent visitors to China, especially to her cities, cannot but notice he breathtaking changes in skylines and infrastructure as well as in social and cultural life since the country embraced the enterprise of "transformation" (zhuanxing) in the early 1990's. This top-down process entails the overhaul of the socialist planned economy, the systematic shift to the market, and ensuing structural changes in every sphere of Chinese life. At the same time, a new generation of filmmakers has emerged out of the shadows of the Fifth Generation giants such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige with their epic tales set in rural China and in a distant past. The young filmmakers insistently trained their cameras instead on the changing face...
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