Author Archives: Rujie Wang

Shower, directed by Zhang Yang, 1999, China Lao Liu (old man Liu), proprietor of an old Beijing bathhouse scheduled to be torn down to make room for new developments; a widower in his 70s in poor health and father of … Continue reading →

Postmen in the Mountains, directed by Huo Jianqi, 1997, China Father, a postman in Hunan Province soon to retire after a life-time exemplary service as a postal worker and courier; views his career with a passion because he loves the … Continue reading →

Peacock, directed by Gu Changwei, 2005, China Gao Weihong, a young woman in a household of five: parents, an older brother and a younger brother; grows up in the 1970s during the Cultural Revolution; precocious, capricious, whimsical and flipant, and … Continue reading →

Not One Less, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2001, China Wei Minzhi, 13 year-old student in a rural village middle school in Bebei Province, called upon as a substitute teacher in Shuiquan Primary School where the regular and the only teacher … Continue reading →

Incense, directed by Ning Hao, 2002, China Buddhist Monkpious and living in a small village called Nan Xiao Zhai in Shaanxi Province where the villagers’s life revolves around live stock; feels important to do what he does in the village … Continue reading →

Happy Times, directed by Zhang Yimou, 2000, China Old Zhao 老赵, a factory worker in his late 50s forced to step down from his post during China’s reform and transformation from a state planned economy to a free market economy; … Continue reading →