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Now showing — China Town · 5 works
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A private detective uncovers corruption in 1930s Los Angeles. Noir perfected.
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A boy in 1970s rural China witnesses a murder and keeps the secret. Wang Xiaoshuai's autobiographical coming-of-age set in the Cultural Revolution's aftermath.
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An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
Urban isolationMemoryMigration -
One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.
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A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.
MemoryMigrationIdentity
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