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After learning skills from the cat, the tiger begins to bully other small animals and even beats the cat. But the cat escapes by climbing up a tree, because climbing is the only skill that the tiger has not learned.

YUAN is highly adept at combining symbolic metaphors with technological media. His works vividly illustrate contemporary human conditions. Dialectical dialogue between moving image and sculpture.

The dog chased the mouse, the black cat prevented the dog from scratching, and he didn't catch the mouse and let the dog nosy.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

TV documentary by Shi Jian.

Educational film about different kinds of the gemstones.

The 1987 Vienna New Year's Concert was the first and only New Year's Concert conducted by Mr. Herbert von Karajan, the "Emperor of Conducting" and the "General Director of Music in Europe", and of course, the only New Year's Concert ever held.

This film is one form of the director's explorative expression, utilizing the imagery of locks and keys to symbolize a society turning awry.

Videotable is a conceptual piece centring on a table, which is a recurring theme and motif in YUNG’s theatre works. A series of dialectical questions asking where ‘the centre’ is, whether it should turn left or right, whether you are faithful to art….loosely points towards power structures both in the political world and the art world.

This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.

1988 feature documentary on the history, culture and people of Tibet.

Documentary about China's first antarctic expedition in 1984.

Early TV documentary short film by director Duan Jinchuan about traditional Tibetan opera performances.

One egg gives birth to two chicks, one black and one white. The two chicks are cultivated into gladiatorial killers.

Documentary short on the military training for the 1989 freshmen of Beijing Broadcasting College.

Educational film on various aspects about anorectal disorders.

Hedgehog, Goat, and Rabbit teach Piggy the consequences of lazy selfishness after being targeted by a crippled wolf.

Song Xiebao from the Xinjiang Yili Television Station adopted an approach reminiscent of “the father of documentary,” Robert Flaherty, and his style of “romantic ethnography” in the production of Red Earth, which depicts the everyday life of three generations of a Uyghur family living beneath the Flaming Mountains in Xinjiang. Much like Nanook of the North (1922), the characters in the film are all staged portrayals, and the narrative is deliberately arranged, aiming to present a traditional way of life as understood by the filmmaker—one that reflects what they perceive to be the enduring customs of the local people over the centuries.

Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.