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Title:

880-01 Bei qing cheng shi = A city of sadness / produced by Fu-Sheng Chiu ; written by T'ien-Wen Chu & Nien-Jen Wu ; directed by Hsiao-Hsien Hou.

Publisher:

Know How,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

1 videodisc (157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Subject:

1945-1975
1947
Families--Taiwan--Drama.
Manners and customs.
Families.
Motion pictures, Chinese.
Taiwan--History--February Twenty Eighth Incident, 1947--Drama.
Taiwan--Social life and customs--1945-1975--Drama.
Taiwan.
Historical films.
Fiction films.
Drama.
Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
Feature films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Domestic drama (Motion pictures)
Historical films.
Chinese language films.
History.

Other Authors:

Nian dai guo ji (Xianggang) you xian gong si, production company.
Know How Disc Distributor, publisher.
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947- film director.
Chiu, Fusheng, film producer.
Zhu, Tianwen, screenwriter.
Wu, Nianzhen, 1952- screenwriter.
Leung, Tony Chiu Wai, 1962- actor.
Xin, Shufen, actor.
Chen, Songyong, 1945- actor
Gao, Jie, 1958- actor.
Chen, En (Huai-en), cinematographer.

Notes:

Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Shu-Fen Hsin, Sung Young Chen, Jack Kao. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1989. Credits from container. "DVD formatted collection"--Container. Special features: trailer.

Summary:

Chronicles the varied lives of the Lin family during the turbulent four years between the Japanese withdrawal from Taiwan (after 50 years of occupation) in 1945, to the Nationalist government's loss of mainland China in 1949. The first Taiwanese film to broach the subject of the most traumatic experience in Taiwan's history, the February 28 Incident in 1947.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1056779244

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)