China's Generation Gap

Requesting a rapid correction. The first Qin Emperor, not the first Han Emperor. Qin Shi Huang is the first Qin Emperor, and is depicted in the film “Hero”.

Comment by Inst from United States — September 21, 2007 @ 6:21 am

I find this to be a very unfair representation of Zhang Yimou’s work, which only seems to focus on his recent films and takes those works as a whole. “Zhang’s… films are anything but subtle...” What about films like “The Story of Qiu Ju”? This is very much a subtle film and is undoubtedly a predecessor and influence to Jia Zhangke’s style. Your omission and glossing over of this this era in Zhang’s career makes you appear to either know very little about Chinese film or choose to ignore these facts in order to make your article more interesting.

Comment by Mark Olsen from Canada — May 23, 2008 @ 1:38 pm