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The radical age of Chinese cinema

Chinese Whispers

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Is That Just Because the Film Industry Has Been So Big?

In the 19 eighties, when i was living in china, most people had no idea what homosexuality was. They didn't understand it at all. So ten years later, i think that that was still just beginning. Yes. But those did happen in those films from the, from the fifth generation as well. Ye. Although, you know, in the case of farewell my concubine chunkage, famously, at a press conference, denied that it was a gay movi. He obviously was not seeing it in that way. And so for people outside the people's republic at that time, it was very shocking to hear him say les bas. It just seemed so obvious.

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