Results

Children of the Revolution (1995 Video)

Director

David Hinton

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. 50 min., 1998 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Profiles the Conservatoire Red Guards, a group of classical music students of the Beijing Central Conservatory who grew up during the cultural Revolution, who relate how they survived the hardships of the...

DVD Find Other To order

Hamulaite (1989 Video)

aka: Hamlet

Director

Zhaohua Lin

Video recording of a stage performance of Hamlet given at the Beijing People’s Arts Theatre. ‘Lin Zhaohua adopted a radical approach in staging his Hamlet in Beijing by abandoning the orthodox "Western...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Around China with a Movie Camera: A Journey from Beijing to Shanghai, 1900 - 1948 (2016)

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 68 minutes), £11.99

This DVD is a compilation of home movies, travelogues and newsreels, made by British and French filmmakers, from professionals to tourists, colonial-era expatriates and Christian missionaries. The collection...

DVD Find Other To order

Aung San Suu Kyi’s Keynote Address to the Ngo Forum on Women, Beijing 1995 (1995 Video)

Subject

Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 17 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

In her keynote address to the NGO forum on women in Beijing in 1995, Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi voices some of the common hopes which unite women all over the world. She is particularly concerned...

DVD Find Other To order

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (2012 Video)

Director

Michell Hébert; Yu Fanlin

Producer

Laree Lentz

A production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream arising from a partnership between University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies and the National Academy of Chinese Theater Arts in...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Lear (1997 Video)

Director

Ong Keng Sen

Video recording of Ong Keng Sen’s interpretation of King Lear bringing together artists from Japan, Thailand, China and Indonesia. The production incorporates different performing genres where actors play...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Kingdom of Desire, The (1986 Video)

Director

Wu Hsing-Kuo

A video recording of the stage production of The Kingdom of Desire written and directed by Wu Hsing-Kuo. The production fuses Shakespeare’s play with the mise-en-scène of Beijing opera.

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order

Being Here and There (1997 Video)

Director

Ka Choi

Producer

Ka Choi

Subject

Art; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 17 min., 1998 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (VHS)

Explores the issues raised by the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and the student occupation of Tianamen Square in Beijing 1989.

DVD Find Other To order

When China Met Africa (2011)

Director

Marc Francis; Nick Francis

Producer

Miriana Bojic Walter

Subject

Economics; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £14.99

Marc Francis’ documentary film explores the expanding footprint of China’s rising global power; in particular how the historic meeting of fifty African heads of state in Beijing, affected the lives of...

DVD Find Other To order

Li Er Zai Ci (2001 Multimedia, Video)

aka: Lear is Here

Director

Wu Hsing-Kuo

A version of King Lear using the theatrical formalism of Beijing opera as a medium in which to read Shakespeare’s play. The director translates Lear into a three-act, one-actor piece of performance art,...

Shakespeare Shakespeare productions To order