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Suzhou Pingtan artist Guo Yueting lives a poor but harmonious life with his wife Meiyu and twin daughters Baimei and Hongmei. Unexpectedly, misfortune falls from the sky, as the bully Qiu Long seizes Meiyu and tears the "plum blossom scarf" embroidered by Meiyu during their fight. In a rage, Guo Yueting slashes Qiu Long with a knife, and must flee overseas. Meiyu and her daughters flee to Shanghai with her husband's brother, Xia Yueqing. [partial synopsis excerpted from Douban.]

After graduating from the teacher's college, Wen Jiefei came to Hainan, a large special zone, to seek a job as a teacher, in the face of various temptations, so Wen Jiefei lost interest in being a teacher, she decided to find another career. Fan Jiyuan, a builder of peasant origin, has been poor since childhood and has not attended school for a few days, so he especially admires educated intellectuals. By chance, he met Wen Jiefei, who was looking for a job, and helped her with her housing, for which Wen was grateful. Her ex-boyfriend Zhang Zhu also came to Hainan from the mainland to participate in education work, and urged her to return to school work, Wen insisted refused. But just the province of Hainan is like the eight immortals, each can show their abilities of the battlefield, every day there are dream-making "miracle", some people get rich overnight, there are people instantly penniless. Where is the way out of it ......

Police battle a counterfeiting ring in Guangzhou.

TV mini-series on the China v Hong Kong qualification match for 1986 FIFA World Cup played on 19 May 1985 and its aftermath. The surprise result of the match caused deep dissatisfaction and hooliganism among Mainland Chinese football fans, leading to the match being immortalised as the 5.19 incident.

Newsreel of the trail for gang of four.

During the rural land tenure reform of the 1980s, conflicts arise between the new establishment of a township enterprise in Haungtupo village and women working in agriculture production.

Dr. Sun Zhongshan leads a democratic revolution in China.

Huansheng Chen, an ordinary worker who prefer to live a quiet live could not get his wish simply because he had a friend who was a high ranking official, the state party secretary, and everyone wanted to utilize this relationships except himself.

Problems when a female truck driver gets into conflict with horsedrawn wagon teamsters.

One of the little white rabbits was ridiculed for having a short and small tail, so he fitted himself with a long tail. Once, the little white rabbit was chased by a fox while playing in the forest. Because of his long tail, the little white rabbit couldn't run fast and couldn't get rid of the fox. It was not until he lost his long tail that he successfully escaped from the danger.

Wong uses his second generation Chinese-Canadian perspective to frame the Chinese here in the new world, Canada, and in the motherland, China. This is an intimate, personal view. Through his own “family network” and several trips to the People’s Republic of China, the artist gained access to the everyday, non-exotic world of the Chinese. A picture emerges of displaced cultures and traditions in transitions.

The Nu River Canyon is located in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China, bordering Myanmar and Tibet. The valley is inhabited by Lisu, Nu, Dulong, Yi, Bai, Tibetan and Jingpo ethnic minorities. This documentary film, filmed in 1986 and edited in 1989, describes in detail the holiday life and religious ceremonies of the inhabitants of the canyon. After the film was screened, it was highly praised by Jean Rouch, director of the French Film Archive. Awarded the Paris Anthropology Film Festival in 1990.

A recruit grows up quickly in the army and becomes a mature soldier.

Originally produced in 1988 and 1989, but blocked from being released after June 4th. A large-scale Chinese documentary series that spanned 100s of interviews in nearly 20 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions. It was completed in early 1989, and each of its parts run roughly 50 minutes. The titles of each part: Family, Fertility, Farmers, Youth, Minority, Women, Artists, Kung Fu, and Mission. The series, according to production notes written by screenwriter Zhu Xiaoyang, "reflects the life and fate of contemporary Chinese people, their behaviors, concepts, and customs; explores the influence of traditional culture and foreign cultures on modern Chinese people; and describes the joy and hard work, hardship, and perseverance, as well as exploration and yearning, of the Chinese people." Youth, Kung Fu, Artists, and Minority are the only surviving parts of this series.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

Zhang Fei solves a malicious accusation when he is taking charge of a local official.

It describes the story of PLA commanders and scientific workers successfully developing ground-to-air rockets to defend the airspace of the Chinese motherland at the diretcion of Premier Zhou.

Lou Ye's student work during his study in Beijing Film Academy. Shot on 16mm B&W film.

Taiwanese comedy.

The story of the Eight Immortals traveling through the East China Sea.

1983 Chinese film

Wei takes the girl he slept with for his long missing daughter and kills her to keep the scandal in secret. But finally Wei dies because of his crime.

Under the leadership of one of the directors, five successful young people agree to have a night of wife swapping to make their business relationship more intimate. One of them, Zhiyong, is reluctant to the idea. First, because he knows his wife will not agree to it, and second, because he's already fucking the leader's wife and doesn't want anybody else from the group getting his hand on her.

The village elders of Long Bow recount tales of famine, drought, disease, and exploitation before explicating various shifts in the political line - from the land reforms of 1949 and the collectivization of the early 50s, through the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the current Four Modernizations.

Taiwanese comedy. A large diamond named "The Light of Shanghai" is given as a gift to the boss of Shanghai Beach, a local gang, and it triggers a battle among the thief Luo Ping, the prostitute Su San, and others

The changes in fortunes of a performance troupe.

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis, bending over and arching up its front leg, is going to catch the cicada but does not know that there is an oriole beside it. The bird has stretched out its neck, ready to peck at the mantis. Again the oriole is unaware that a weasel is sneaking up to it. The three creatures all covet gains ahead without being aware of an imminent danger behind.

Sayonara Goodbye is a China-Japan Co-Production starring Cherie Chung.

Slapstick humor and over the top martial arts action highlight this madcap adventure tale of a simpleton who fights for the people.

A pancake vendor is mistaken for a hero of the Boxers.

The mangos are ripe. Working hard together, Bunny, Monkey, and Black Dog pick up a very big heap of mangos from the mango tree. At first, Bunny and Monkey wanted to take the mangos home in a basket, but there are too many mangos to do that. They decide to take turns instead, each keeping guard for one night to make sure no one steals their mangos. Little White Bunny isn't brave, but he doesn't want to be laughed at by his friends, so he volunteers to keep guard for the first night; but when he notices the mangos being stolen during the night, he's so afraid that he goes hide instead. When his friends come back the next day, he lies, saying the mangos grew legs and run away by themselves.

Back in the waring States Period, the King of Qi enjoyed listening to the pipe played by 300 people. Knowing nothing about playing pipe, Mr. Nanguo somehow made his way to the band.