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  1. To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and Medicine in a Chinese Village (1986 Video)

    Director
    Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

    The setting is Long Bow, a village 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Focuses on one family - the village doctor’s - and integrates the lives of individuals with larger issues. Dr Shen, a Roman Catholic,...

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  2. Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984 Video)

    Director
    Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton
    Subject
    Anthropology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

    Concerns the women of the village, Long Bow, who are the subject of the William Hinton books ‘Shenfan’ and Fanshen’. The title refers to the enduring attitude in rural China that while a boy is ‘big...

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  3. All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village (1985 Video)

    Director
    Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton
    Distribution
    Hire or sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

    Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...

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  4. Silk and Strings: Taiwan (1994 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Chinese silk-stringed zithers and folk dances, including a performance of a Peking Opera. Also shows village life, the Chinese type of Buddhist prayers, and temple architecture, painting and calligraphy.

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  5. Early Hou Hsiao-Hesien: Three Films 1980-1983 (1980)

    Director
    Hsiao-hesien Hou
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region B, 282 minutes), £24.99

    One of world cinema’s most dynamic and highly regarded auteurs, Hou Hsiao-hsien has influenced entire generations of filmmakers and was once dubbed "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of...

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  6. Performing Arts of China, The (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 x 27 min.

    Part 1: Examples of musical instruments being manufactured and played by master musicians and orchestras. Interwoven in the musical sequences are scenic shots of Chinese landscapes. Part 2: Rare scenes of...

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  7. How Yukong Moved the Mountains (12 Parts) (1976 Film)

    Director
    Joris Ivens; Marceline Loridan
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The 12 films in the series, shot over a period of three years with a Chinese crew, show everyday life in contemporary China. 1: deals with the world of Kao Chou Lan, a solderer in a locomotive factory,...

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  8. Year in Tibet, A

    Director
    Sun Shuyun
    Subject
    Anthropology; History; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 260 minutes), £19.99

    Isolated in the midst of the world’s highest mountains, the Himalayas, Tibet is one of the remotest and least accessible places on the planet. It is also one of the most secretive and least known. A focus...

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