Culturalrevolution Histoires

Seven days. As a student committee member, Zhenghe shoulders the important task entrusted to him by his teacher: to organize a collective student welcome performance for Mr.Teoh from the capital within a week......

A woman looks back on her childhood and the memories the bear she keeps on the front of her canal boat provoke. Sad and moving, a look at how the innocence of childhood can be corrupted by those who with ulterior motives.

What does the year 1960 mean to the Chinese people? "Three-Years of Natural Disaster", in which it is said more than 30 million Chinese lost their lives. A surviving boy aged six, is taken from his extended, countryside family with whom he has been living for 4 years, by a "total stranger" to Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province. This was the first time DanJiu ever met his father, for that matter, it was the first time he had ever heard the word "father". This first meeting marks the beginning of a decade's long bid for his father's love. Second son of a not so high ranking, not so low ranking Communist Party Member, he was born in response to the Party's call to, "have as many children as possible for the use of war". The seriousness with which the world around him presents itself demands he fit in. DanJiu learns quite early that he is a square peg. The desperate bid for his father's love seems unattainable as he overhears Father say, "I dislike that child by nature." heartbreaking words that will haunt his life as he questions, "Why 'by nature'?" The blissful discovery of violin at age 12 leads to a lifelong passion, love, obsession and a major problem. It's 1966 and the Cultural Revolution is in full swing meaning that anything WESTERN is evil, including his beloved violin. How will he persist in his pursuit? Time marches on and DanJiu becomes Daniel. In the early 80's he follows his passion for violin to the west where he lives for his dream in a violinist's world with a beautiful Norwegian wife, about to take the next step to the USA. Everything sold, money in hand, packed and ready to go, Daniel receives a desperate letter from China pleading for his help. His long estranged father lay dying in a hospital unable to pay for his medical care. Daniel is the family's only hope. What will he do? Having come so far in pursuit of his passion, will he give it all up for his father who dislikes him by nature? What would you do?

I have a problem with documentaries. No, really. This is what happens when the chipmunk on caffeine I have instead of a brain sees documentaries about the cultural revolution. A red guard and an artist, the late 60s. (English isn't my first language, so please feel free to point out any mistakes! I have so much to learn!!)

* Cover art not mine * Samantha Harris was an ambitious American animator chasing her dreams in Japan, where she worked tirelessly on the anime adaptation of a reverse harem otome game. But the relentless grind of deadlines, corporate crunch, and creative burnout finally took its toll-Samantha tragically died at her desk, stylus still in hand. When she awoke, it wasn't in a hospital or the afterlife, but inside the very anime she was animating. To her horror she had been reborn as Selene Virellia, the infamous villainess of the story-a haughty rich girl hellbent on sabotaging the sweet, lovable heroine and marrying the game's ultimate prize: Lucien Thorne, the icy "King of Film" and untouchable media mogul. But Selene-no, Sam-wants nothing to do with this tired, cliché-filled plot. With her memories fully intact and zero interest in playing the role of the petty antagonist, she gives the story a giant middle finger and sets out to change everything. Instead of chasing Lucien or bullying the heroine, Sam-Selene decides to exploit the world's biggest creative gap: the complete lack of high-quality animation and storytelling. Armed with industry knowledge, stubborn determination, and the intellectual property of an entire universe's worth of iconic media, Selene begins recreating the classics-Studio Ghibli films, Disney musicals, Pixar hits, Western cartoons, even cult anime and cinematic masterpieces-one frame at a time. Selene uses her modern world advantage to shake the entertainment industry to its core. As her groundbreaking studio rises in fame and fortune, the game's original cast-rivals, suitors, and Lucien himself-start getting pulled into her story. The villainess everyone expected to fall becomes the visionary rewriting the rules, turning a fluffy romance plot into a full-blown cultural revolution. And if fate or romance tries to get in her way again? She'll storyboard a better ending. Warning: Some bad grammar.