---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 15 Jul 2000 New in IGCS - Film and Movies: The Gate of Heavenly Peace Ed./Corp.: Long Bow Group, Inc. URL: http://www.nmis.org/Gate/film Language: English. Self description: "THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE documents the history of the 1989 movement and reflects the drama, tension, humor, absurdity, heroism, and many tragedies of the six weeks from April to June in 1989." Description: Very useful, not only for its information on the film THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE (Tiananmen) made by Carma Hinton but also for numerous documents about the Beijing spring of 1989 and the symbolism of the Tiananmen Square. Site contents: (1) The making of the film; (2) Characters (Interviewees in THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE include students, workers, teachers, and scholars); (3) Media library (contains film and audio clips and a gallery of stills, paintings, and artwork); (4) Reviews, commentary, and controversy; (5) Transcript (complete transcript of the film); (6) Themes (Material and background information on some issues concerned); (7) Chronology; (8) Additional Reading (On-line resources; Bibliography). _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L