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Chinese Portrait
''Chinese Portrait'' (Simplified Chinese: ''我的镜头'', Pinyin: ''Wǒ de Jìngtóu'') is a 2018 documentary film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. It was shot over ten years in the urban east and the rural northwest of China. It is Wang's first full-length documentary. Synopsis ''Chinese Portrait'' is predominantly composed of a series of around 60 portraits shot in video and film. They feature long shots of people standing motionless while life goes on around them. Subjects include train passengers, farmers, students, factory workers, tourists, and construction workers in both urban and rural areas of China; Wang appears in many shots. The film has no dialogue. Through these portraits, Wang aimed to give an authentic portrait of different aspects of China and portray the rapid change in Chinese society. Production ''Chinese Portrait'' was filmed over seven years, starting in 2009, in a variety of location in eastern and northwestern China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Ningx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simplified Chinese Characters
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters used in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore, as prescribed by the '' Table of General Standard Chinese Characters''. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People's Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s to encourage literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China, Malaysia and Singapore, while traditional Chinese characters still remain in common use in Hong Kong, Macau, ROC/Taiwan and Japan to a certain extent. Simplified Chinese characters may be referred to by their official name above or colloquially . In its broadest sense, the latter term refers to all characters that have undergone simplifications of character "structure" or "body", some of which have existed for millennia mainly in handwriting alon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
