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Palace of Desire, also known as Da Ming Gong Ci, is a Chinese television series based on the life story of Princess Taiping, a daughter of China's only female emperor Wu Zetian. Directed by Li Shaohong and Zeng Nianping, the series starred Chen Hong, Zhou Xun, Gui Yalei and Winston Chao in the leading roles. It was first broadcast on CCTV-8 in mainland China on March 30, 2000.
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A Chinese prostitute weds, studies painting, and becomes a renowned artist and professor in Paris.
Zi Hen, who is being raised in a strict orphanage, is suddenly adopted by the beautiful and wealthy Luo Ban-di, who murdered her own husband.
At the tail end of the Cultural Revolution, Qiu Shi, a poet who has been in prison for six years, is transferred elsewhere by boat under the guard of two officers. During transit, he meets a series of passengers, who have also faced hardships in recent times.
A portrait of a woman, more intelligent and more ambitious than her husband, who must fight to break with village morality by choosing to have an abortion.
In the snowy countryside of northern China, Wen receives a telegram informing her that her father is dead. She travels to the city and finds he was branded a reactionary in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. She is distraught, and on the way home, she is harassed and attacked by thugs, but she stays in the home of a kind-hearted doctor.
Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.
During the Cultural Revolution a powerless newspaper writer struggles with his conscience at the pervasive dishonesty and immorality from the top on down. The ethical and professional conflicts eventually threaten both his work and family relationships,
