''China Behind'' (再見中國) is a

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; f ...

Hong Kong movie The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, Hong Kong had a greater degree of ...

, directed by

Tang Shu Shuen Tang Shu Shuen (; born 1941) is a former Hong Kong film director. Though her film career was brief, she was a trailblazer for socially critical art cinema in Hong Kong's populist film industry, as well as its first noted woman director. Tang wa ...

. The film painted a bleak portrait of communist China and the desire to escape, yielding a thirteen-year ban by British colonial authorities, that was lifted in 1987.East Asian Institute of Columbia University's Weatherhead Program in Contemporary Culture and Arts of East Asia
/ref> The film was shot in Taiwan with official authorization, and the cinematography was done by renowned Taiwanese photographer Chang Chao-tang (張照堂).

Synopsis

The plot concerns four college students seeking escape to Hong Kong at the start of the 1966 Maoist

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goal ...

in Mainland China.

Reception

The film was selected as one of the " Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures" during the

24th Hong Kong Film Awards The 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony was held on 27 March 2005, in the Hong Kong Coliseum and hosted by Carol Cheng and Lawrence Cheng. Twenty-nine winners in nineteen categories were unveiled, with films ''Kung Fu Hustle'' and '' 2046'' being ...

ceremony on 27 March 2005. It was also selected for inclusion in

Hong Kong Film Archive The Hong Kong Film Archive is a film archive collects, preserves, and screens Hong Kong films and other related materials. The archive was founded in 1993, when its Planning Office was opened by the Urban Council. It joined the Internationa ...

's "100 must-see Hong Kong movies" in 2011.100 must-see Hong Kong movies
p.66.

References

External links

IMDb entry

Hong Kong Cinemagic entry

Hong Kong Movie Database entry
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