{ items: [ { label: 'CH 001', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Liu, Yuehua', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Workbook Vol. II, Part II is available. First tape in this set is for the workbook exercises. The following tapes are for the textbook lessons. Course stresses listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 1994.', submitted_by: 'Liu', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTEGRATED CHINESE, Level 2', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 002', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Hearn, Rob', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This film portrays an ancient story of romance and humor told through the medium of Chinese Opera and specially intended for the video format. Includes explanatory commentary on performance and culture.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'KULTUR International Films, W. Long Branch, NJ, 1981.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PERFUMED HANDKERCHIEF, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '70"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese and English with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 003', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Two-part documentary. This video will take the viewer to many of China\'s most pituresque and historically significant sites.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Nan Hai Co., Millbrae, CA.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HESHANG (The River Elegy) VOL. 1 & 2', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Vol. 1 - 1\' 50" Vol. 2 - 1\' 46"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 005', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Based on the novel by Su Tong. In the 1920\'s, a young girl becomes Fourth Wife to a wealthy man and the subsequent rivalry for affection between the women arouses jealousy and misfortune.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Orion Pictures, 1991.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAHONG DENGLONG GAOGAO GUA (Raise the Red Lantern)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 006', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Teng, Shou-Hsin and Yuehau, Liu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Two videotapes with ten short TV plays in Mandarin (Beijing dialect) that were shown on Beijing television. Tape 1: 1. One Dollar Affair; 2. Watermelon Girl; 3. To Trade a Father; 4. A Bride; 5. A Family Serenade. Tape 2: 6. A Pink Sweater; 7. A Man\'s Capacity; 8. Happiness in Golden Age; 9. Fog vs. Dew; 10. Marriage/Teacher Wang.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Cheng & Tsui Co, Boston, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHORT CHINESE TV PLAYS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Each segment is 10-15", each video 70"+', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 007', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'In 1930s China a young woman, Jiu\'er, is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies Jiu\'er finds herself inheriting the isolated business and she sets up an idealized, quasi-matriarchal community. Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road. But the community rises up and resists. In the process of resisting the Japanese, Jiu\'er dies.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Mei Ah Entertainment, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HONG GAOLIANG (Red Sorghum)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 009', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang and Liang, Yang Feng', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Set in a dye factory, the film chronicles the tragic relationship between a beautiful young woman, the elderly, embittered and impotent typant to whom she is sold in marriage, and his nephew to whom she turns for salvation. When Ju Dou and Tian Qing succumb to their mutual desire, their breach of Confucian traditiion leads to a vengeful chain of events.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., 1990.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JU DOU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '96"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 010', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'The story is centered on the centuries old search for water in a small mountain village. A married village worker teams up with an old girlfriend to try to dig a well for his water-starved village. The well collapses and they are trapped. Their enforced confinement leads to them exploring their feelings for each other and those around them.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: '1986', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LAO JING (Old Well)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 011', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Sang, Hu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Film is an adaptation of an original story by Lu Xun. The film, produced in 1956, takes place in the years just before an after the Revolution of 1911 and tells the story of a young widow, Xianglin.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1956', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ZHU FU (New Year Sacrifice)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 012', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Sun Daolin', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This adaptation of an original work by Cao Yu is set at the turn of the century and tells a story of complicated love affairs and family relationships.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1961', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LEI YU (Thunderstorm)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '119"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 013', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Literature'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Contains: The Artist; Oppression; Poetry; Life\'s great affair; After returning home.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'READINGS ON CONTEMPORARY CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 014', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chen, Kaige', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A Communist soldier is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to collect do not exist; the songs he finds are about hardship and suffering. He returns to the Army, but promises to come back for the young girl, Cuiqiao, who has been spellbound by his talk of the freedom women have under Communist rule and who wants to join the Communist Army.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Nan Hai Co., Inc., CA, 1984', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUANG TUDI (Yellow Earth)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with Chinese and English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 015', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yu, Cao', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Yih-jian Tai directs this production of the play by Cao Yu, a famous 20th century playwrite who was influenced by Eugene O\'Neil.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Produced jointly by the Chinese Culture Institute and Asia Onstage, 1995.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WILD LAND, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 016', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Three performances of the Peking Opera. Tape 1: The Three Encounters: a martial ar piece also known as "Fighting in the Dark." The performers, although flooded in light, give the illusion of a fight in total darkness by their symbolic gestures. The Magic Pearl: dramatization of a short episode from the famous Ming Dynasty novel, Journey to the West. A very interesting piece displaying acrobatics. Tape 2: Monkey King\'s Batle with the Eighteen Arhats: dramatization of an episode from the famous Ming Dynasty novel, Journey to the West. An exciting piece displaying acrobatics and martial arts.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Culture and Art Audio & Video (CAAV), China, [1996]', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'PEKING OPERA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: 'Tape 1: 1\'06" Tape 2: 46"', video_subtitles: 'Music, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 017', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chao, Yuen Ren', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-24.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'MANDARIN PRIMER', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 018', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Contains: Thunderstorm; To Learn a trade; Tape 8; Wedding march (tape 9); Untitled; Articles on Chinese life and culture; The story of No Ar; Short Chinese Plays.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, 1980.', submitted_by: '', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE STORIES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 019', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Jarvis, Lucy', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video filmed by Lucy Jarvis, the first Westerner allowed to film inside Communist China. A look at the mystery, opulence and grandeur of Peking - sights and entertainment sequences.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'National Broadcasting, 1963', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINA AND THE FORBIDDEN CITY', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 020', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Ch\'en, Ta-Tuan et al', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Set begins with Foundation Work. Following this, each lesson has a vocabulary introduction, then dialogues from the main text. A final section on Chinese Characters introduces formation and pronunciation of each character and shows sample sentences which include the character. Videotapes accompany this material. In the Foundation Work video an instructor presents this material. The Chinese Primer Units provides an enactment of the conversations in the text.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape', 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1986.', submitted_by: 'Tai', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'CHINESE PRIMER', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '', video_subtitles: 'Chinese and some English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 021', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chaowu, Fu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1980. A romantic Chinese legend. Two snake-faries long to live as mortals, so they transform themselves into a lady, Lady White, and her maidservant. Lady White meets and falls in love with Xu Xian, an herbalist, but an evil monk discovers Lady White\'s true identity and separates the lovers by trapping the white snake under a pagoda. There she remains for centuries until green snake musters troops and topples the pagoda.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Solid Video Ltd., Hong Kong, 1983.', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BAISHE ZHUAN (Legend of the White Snake)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '145"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 022', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chin, Tao', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1956. A screen version of a Kunchu opera - adopted from a famous romance. Yu Hu-lu, a butcher, comes home confused with 15 strings of cash he has borrowed somewhere. He jestingly tells his foster daughter he has sold her. During the night she decides to run away during, and a thug comes by , steals the money, and kills Yu. People suspect Su. When they find her and a fellow traveler with has 15 strings of cash, they are brought before the magistrate and sentenced to death. Will justice prevail?', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Video Movies, Hong Kong.', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FIFTEEN STRINGS OF CASH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '123"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 023', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yu, Zhou', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1961. A famous love story set during the Ming Dynasty. Legendary courtesan Du Shiniang sacrifices everything to be with her lover, Li Jia. but Li gets word that his father is furious with him and is finally persuaded to sell Du to a salt merchant. Du refuses to submit to the will of these two shelfish men and throws herself into the river, taking control of her own destiny.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1961', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BEAUTIFUL COURTESAN', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '137"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 024', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Peirong, Wu', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Produced in 1980. A couple falls in love, and a friend decides to play a prank that backfires and the couple are arrested for murder. The joker finally decides to help his friend, but then he and his lover are arrested. A third official decides there is something fishy about the case and has it reinvestigated.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Video Movies, 1980', submitted_by: 'Y. Tai', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'YANZHI', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '137"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 025', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'T\'ung, P.C. and School of Oriental & African Studies', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim recording of the Chinese content of Colloquial Chinese. Each lesson is recorded in the order: vocabulary list, narratives, dialogues, and speech patterns. 17 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, [1997]', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COLLOQUIAL CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 026', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chou, Chih-p\'ing and Chao, Derlin', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Standard Mandarin, 22 lessons.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '(text) Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1992. (audio) Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, 1992.', submitted_by: 'Lui', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'INTERMEDIATE READER OF MODERN CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 027', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of (mostly) short dialogues geared to the lesons of Colloquial Chinese - about 10 dialogues per lesson. The dialogues are recorded whole and then repeated phrase-by phrase to English cues. 16 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN BASIC DIALOGUES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 028', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of interactive exercises designed to introduce or consolidate each lesson of the introductory course. Scripts contain hints, models and new vocabulary. 14 lessons.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN TO REVIEW', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 029', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'A series of 5 lessons (1, 1a, 2, 3, 4). with exercises on the sounds and representation (pinyin) of standard Chinese. Intended for a beginning-level course, but can also be used selectively by more advanced students. Exercises and answer sheets available.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cornell University, Ithaca NY, [1997].', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'MANDARIN PRONUNCIATION AND ROMANIZATION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 030', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Teng, Shou-hsin', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'An intermediate level course which brings to life the superstitions, customs, practices and manners of present-day Chinese in Taiwan. Designed to develop conversation and reading skills.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Shou-hsin Teng, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TAIWAN TODAY: AN INTERMEDIATE COURSE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 031', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Ni Zhang, Phyllis', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Audio: L. 1-18, and Listening Comprehension1-18 in Mandarin Chinese. Lessons are built around dialogues and narratives which are supplemented by many forms of exercises and cultural notes. Goal of the course is to advance listening and speaking skills as well as reading and writing proficiency. CD-ROM contains 108 character animations - 6 characters for each of the 18 chapters. Animations show the correct stroke order and stroke shape. Audio copyright Phyllis Ni Zhang, 1999.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette', 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Audio: Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, 1999. Character Animations produced by LLARC at MIT, 2002.', submitted_by: 'Chen / Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAVID AND HELEN IN CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 032', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Wang, Fred', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim reading of the text; helpful to listen while reading a character text.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, New Haven CT, [1998]', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LADY IN THE PAINTING, THE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 033', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video tour of Hong Kong Harbor, small antique shops, food stalls, duty free shops, and more. Travel on the Kowloon Canton Railway and jet-foil across the Pearl River estuary to visit Macau, known as the "Monaco of the East".', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'International Video Network, San Ramon, CA, 1987', submitted_by: 'Teng', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'IMPRESSIONS OF HONG KONG AND MACAU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '24"', video_subtitles: 'In English, no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 034', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A video tour of the island of Taiwan. Visits to a museum, the Grand Hotel, Snake Alley, Taroko Gorge, Mount Ali, and others. There are interviews with the People of the Dragon, a master chef, a Buddhist nun, and an acupuncturist.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'International Video Network, San Ramon, CA, 1987', submitted_by: 'Teng', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TAIWAN: EXOTIC BLOSSOM OF THE ORIENT', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '50"', video_subtitles: 'In English with no subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 035', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Chang, Richard', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Verbatim reading of Richard F. Chang\'s \'Chinese Mythical Stories\', two well known Chinese folktales, retold in language that intermediate level students can understand. The two are: (1) the story of \'Houyi Shooting the Sun and Chang\'s Fleeing to the Moon\'; and (2) the \'Tale of the White Snake\'. NOTE: Part 4 of this series is damaged, and can not be used.', level: 'Intermediate level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Cronell University, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Bi', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE MYTHICAL STORIES', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 036', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A documentary on Chinese history from ancient times to the present which will give the viewer a better understanding of China\'s 5,000 years of civilization.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Madacy Entertainment Group, Quebec, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HISTORY AND THE MYSTERY, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 037', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie. To obtain real data about the common people\'s life and the societe as well, Emperor Qian Long decides to personally travel to the south. The story tells of his experiences on this trip south.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Zhujiang Studio, Guangzhou [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'EMPEROR QIAN LONG ON THE TRIP TO THE SOUTH', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\'30"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 038', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie. In the early 1980\'s China\'s first economic zone, Shenzhen, attracts many young people eager to realize their dream. This movie describes several girls from the countryside and how their life changes after coming to the zone.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Zhujiang Studio, Guangzhou [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WORKING GIRLS IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 039', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional movie about a Chinese legend, Monk Ji Gong. In the movie, Monk Ji Gong uses his magic to help the poor and criticizes corruption.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Audio Visual Publishing House, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MONK JI GONG', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\' 30"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 040', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional story about a common Chinese countryside family living in the northeast, and what happens to them when they celebrate the traditional Chinese New Year - Spring Festival.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Film Studio and Wahne Video Ltd, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 041', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A fictional love story. As people\'s standard of living improves, their philosophy about love also changes. Three young ladies love one man, but see how they solve this problem.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Shanghai Studio, Shanghai [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'THREE YOUNG LADIES HAVE THE SAME DREAM', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 042', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Through children\'s story telling and performances, the Chinese traditional festival - Chinese New Year - and its traditions are introduced.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China TV Program Center, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CELEBRATING THE CHINESE NEW YEAR - CHILDREN\'S PERFORMANCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 043', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Chinese traditions and customs about spending Chinese New Year are introduced through a series of lectures.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Research Center for Traditional Chinese Culture, Beijing University, Beijing [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE NEW YEAR', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 044', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Tai Ji Quan is a very popular form of exercise in China as well as the rest of the world. This video teaches a simplified 24 movement Tai Ji Quan - easy to learn and good for one\'s health.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing University, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SIMPLIFIED TAI JI QUAN - 24 FORMS', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 045', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Everyone knows Chinese food is delicious and healthy. But how can we learn the art of Chinese cooking? From this videotape we will learn how to cook some of the most delicious but easiest Chinese food.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing TV Station, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHINESE CUISINE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 046', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Beijing opera is the most popular form of opera in China. Do you want to know why? Its history? What does it look like? Its music? Its costumes? Then come and look at this tape. It has what you need.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CCTV, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'COLLECTION OF BEIJING OPERAS, A', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '120"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 047', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This Beijing opera is about a Chinese traditional legend, widely known in China. Do you want to know the legend? Listen to beautiful music? See the beautiful costumes? Understand the story? This video will give you all of this.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Studio, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'STORY OF THE WHITE SNAKE, THE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '2\' 15"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 048', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'There are many beautiful mountains in China, but among them there are four that are associated with Buddhism. Do you want to know about Buddhist history? Get a better understanding of Buddhism? Know why these four mountains are special for Buddhists? This video will provide the answers.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Videotape'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'CCTV, Beijing, [1999].', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FOUR OF THE MOST FAMOUS BUDDHIST MOUNTAINS IN CHINA', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '60"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 049', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Bai, Jianhau', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'This book is designed to actively engage the student in meaningful communication within various contexts. It tries to meet a variety of individual needs by providing a large pool of supplementary vocabulary. Each of the 15 chapters consist of a model dialogue, a set of discussion questions, a list of new words, and grammar explanations.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'J. Bai, J. Sung, and J. Zhiqun Xing, 1996.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BEYOND THE BASICS: COMMUNICATIVE CHINESE FOR INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED LEARNERS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 050', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'L. 1-12. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Far Eastern Publications, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1997.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TALKS ON CHINESE CULTURE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 051', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Wheatley, Julian and Tong Chen', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-2', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by Wheatley & Chen for MIT', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MANDARIN SOUND & SYMBOLS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 052', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Steps 1-11. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by J. wheatley for M.I.T.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'FIRST STEPS IN CHINESE', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 053', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-24 and L. 31. Lessons 25, 28, 32, 33 Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: '', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'OH CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 054', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ ], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Dialogues 1a - 8a. Recorded by faculty at MIT.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2000', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'INTERMEDIATE CHINESE READINGS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 055', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-5 , recorded by MIT faculty.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2000.', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NEW TEXT FOR MODERN CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 056', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lessons 1-15. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2001.', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SPOTLIGHT ON CHINA', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 057', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'WHEATLEY, JULIAN', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'Lesson 1 only. Recorded by MIT faculty.', level: 'Beginning level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Cassette'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'MIT, 2002', submitted_by: 'Wheatley', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'Learning Chinese: A Beginning Course', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 058', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: 'Shih, Chung-wen', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'This cd-rom is designed for use in an intermediate or advanced college Chinese language course. It may also be used for self-study. The program integrates authentic Chinese materials, video interviews with leading writers (Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Cao Yu, and Ai Quing), archival footage, performances of the writers\' works, and commentary on contemporary China.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Columbia university, New York, 2002', submitted_by: 'Jin Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'LEARN CHINESE FROM MODERN WRITERS', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 060', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Yang', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Five tales of love in contemporary Beijing. One obsessed youth uses his recording skills to edit together an "I love you" from his crush, while another boy hopes to reconcile his bickering parents by putting a magic love potion into a homemade dinner. An overworked husband and wife rediscover love through electric toy cars and miniature kickboxer games, while a younger couple recount their own courtship in voiceover and flashbacks. In the centerpiece of the film, an awkward first encounter between an older woman and three retired suitors turns joyous thanks to the power of mahjong.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Chinese Media Development Co, 1998', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'AIQING MALA TANG (Spicy Love Soup)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '103"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with English Subtitles. All regions, PAL video' } , { label: 'CH 061', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study', 'Culture'], author_or_director: 'Su, Wei & Mu, Ling', c_copies_in_stock: '', description: 'The first seven of the nine chapters in this textbook were recorded by Tong Chen, Chinese instructor. The materials for the book were selected from several famous modern Chinese writers. The chapters reflect Chinese modern history, contemporary history, and society. Can be found on course website.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Audio CD'], number_of_copies: '', publication_info: 'Recorded by LLARC at MIT, Spring 2004', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CONTEMPORARY CHINESE TEXTS - FICTION', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 062', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Xiaogang, Feng', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When big-shot Hollywood director Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), remaking "The Last Emperor" in China, falls into a coma after a heart attack, it\'s left to his hired videographer to fulfill the filmmaker\'s last wish - to prepare a "comedy funeral" so Tyler can be properly reincarnated. That request soon gets out of hand, attracting all manner of advertisers and hangers-on hoping to profit from the event, while fearing that Tyler won\'t actually die.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Huayi Brothers & Taihe Film, 2001', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'DAN WAN (Big Shot\'s Funeral)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '100"', video_subtitles: 'In Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 063', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Hui On Wah, Ann', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Adapted from Hai Yan\'s novel. An Xin works as a narcotics police officer in Yunnan Province. Though she is engaged to be married, she falls in love with a drug dealer and has his child. She still marries her fiancee, but her life begins to unravel as her past relationship and current police work conflict, leading to tragedy.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China Film Company, 2003', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'YU GUANYIN (Jade Goddess of Mercy)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '108"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 065', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhuangzhuang, Tian', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Told from the perspective of a young boy, this film traces the fate of a Beijing family and their neighbors during the political and social upheavals in the 1950\'s and 60\'s in China.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Chuo Eyetos & Co, China, 1993', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'Lan Fengzheng (The Blue Kite)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '138"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 066', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Yimou', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'In the 40\'s, in China, Fugui is a gambler. His wife Jiazhen can not stand it any longer and leaves. Fugui loses everything, and then creates puppet shows to survive. Jiazhen comes back... Historical chronicle of the China from the 1940\'s to the 80\'s, through the story of this family.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Era International, Hong Kong, 1994', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HUOZHE (To Live)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '125"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English, French or Spanish subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 067', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Ye, Lou', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Along the banks ofthe Suzhou River, which winds precariously through Shanghai, Marda falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Moudan. When he tries to kidnap her in order to demand ransom money from her rich father, she escapes him, jumping into the river and disappearing forever. Marda serves a 3-year jail sentence for his attempted crime. Upon his release, he meets a woman that looks exactly like Moudan.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Dream Factory & Filmproduktion, China, 2000', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SUZHOU HE (Suzhou River)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '83"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles' } , { label: 'CH 068', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Wang, Xiaoshuai', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Guei arrives from the country, and gets a job as a messenger. The company issues him a bike, which he must pay for out of his wages. When it is stolen, Guei hunts for it endlessly. A student, Jian, has it. For him, it\'s his key to teen society - with his pals and with Xiao, his girlfriend. Guei finds the bike and stubbornly tries to reclaim it in the face of great odds. But for Jian to lose the bike would mean humiliation. The two young men - and the people around them - are swept up in the youths\' desperation.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Pyramide Productins, China, 2001', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHIQI SUI DE DAN CHE (Beijing Bicycle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '113"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 069', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Kar-wai, Wong', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Yaohui and Baorong arrive in Argentina from Hong Kong and take to the road for a holiday. Something is wrong, and their relationship goes adrift. A disillusioned Yiaohui starts working at a tango bar to save up for his trip home. When a beaten and bruised Baorong reappears, Yaohui is empathetic, but is unable to enter a more intimate relationship. After all, Baorong is not ready to settle down. Yaohui now works in a Chinese restaurant and meets the youthful Chang from Taiwan. Yaohui\'s life takes on a new spin, while Baorong\'s life shatters continually in contrast.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Block 2 Pictures, Hong Kong, 1997', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'CHEUN GWONG TSA SIT (Happy Together)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '97"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 070', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Language Study'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Text contains full users guide. A program designed to help the student easily learn the meaning and formation of thousands of Chinese characters. Includes a Chinese text editor, a user-modifiable Dictionary that includes pronunciation, definition and examples of calligraphy, etc; flashcards, handwriting recognition, and a search function.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'CD-ROM'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Wenlin Institute, 1997-2002', submitted_by: 'Winnie Wong - grad student', text_or_script: 'Text available.', title: 'WENLIN: Software for Learning Chinese', video_color: '', video_length: '', video_subtitles: '' } , { label: 'CH 071', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Huo, Jianqi', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire. His only son is due to take over his duties. As father and son journey through the mountains, the son begins to appreciate the toil and burden his father has to bear as postman for the villagers, and the old postman is also deeply moved as his son relates his mother\'s anxiety as she waits for him to return home from every trip.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 1999', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'NASHAN NAREN NAGOU (Postmen of the Mountains)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 007B', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'In 1930s China a young woman, Jiu\'er, is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies Jiu\'er finds herself inheriting the isolated business and she sets up an idealized, quasi-matriarchal community. Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road. But the community rises up and resists. In the process of resisting the Japanese, Jiu\'er dies.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Mei Ah Entertainment, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HONG GAOLIANG (Red Sorghum)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91" 2 disc set', video_subtitles: 'Chinese Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 072', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chen, Kaige', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'Spanning over 50 years, we follow China\'s history through the lives of two opera stars - from their entry as young boys into the Peking Opera School in 1924 to their reunion in 1977. The boys endure the rigorous and sometimes torturous training at the hands of Master Guan who molds their talents, preparing them for their life-long roles as a concubine and a king. Douzi, who\'s role is that of the Concubine, is conditioned to live as a girl in order to perfect his role. He develops a romantic love for Shitou, who can only return a fraternal love. Shitou chooses instead to marry the beautiful Juxian, a prostitute, driving Douzi into deep despair.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Tomson (HK) Films, 1993.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'BA WANG BIE JI (Farewell, My Concubine)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '172"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 074', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Guoxing, Chen', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This drama documents the Chinese government\'s decision to enter the arms race due to a self-proclaimed threat of insecurity after WWII, the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. They hire a MIT-trained Chinese patriot to head the project, but there is a huge snag - his wife\'s estranged father is a capitalist.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'Beijing Film Studio, China, 1999', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HENG HENG KONG CHU SHI (Roaring Across the Horizon)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '111"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 073', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'What does it mean to become American? What is lost and gained, both personally and culturally, when one sheds part of one\'s heritage to make way for a new self-identity? Beginning with the harsh conditions in China that drove thousands to seek their fortunes in the California Gold Rush, this saga traces the ongoing struggle of Chinese immigrants and their decendants to be fully accepted as Americans. Told in 3 installments, the story is complemented by candid conversations with prominent Chinese Americans. 3 dvd set covering 1840\'s to the present. See website http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/chineseexperience.html', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'FFH Home Video, 2003', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'BECOMING AMERICAN; THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '122"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'EN ', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'NOTE: Catalogue number for this series is CH 073. Though part of the Chinese collection, it is entirely appropriate for English students. What does it mean to become American? What is lost and gained, both personally and culturally, when one sheds part of one\'s heritage to make way for a new self-identity? Beginning with the harsh conditions in China that drove thousands to seek their fortunes in the California Gold Rush, this saga traces the ongoing struggle of Chinese immigrants and their decendants to be fully accepted as Americans. Told in 3 installments, the story is complemented by candid conversations with prominent Chinese Americans. 3 dvd set covering 1840\'s to the present. See website http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/chineseexperience.html', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'FFH Home Video, 2003', submitted_by: 'Zhang', text_or_script: 'Script available.', title: 'BECOMING AMERICAN; THE CHINESE EXPERIENCE', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '122"', video_subtitles: 'English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 009B', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang and Liang, Yang Feng', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Set in a dye factory, the film chronicles the tragic relationship between a beautiful young woman, the elderly, embittered and impotent typant to whom she is sold in marriage, and his nephew to whom she turns for salvation. When Ju Dou and Tian Qing succumb to their mutual desire, their breach of Confucian traditiion leads to a vengeful chain of events.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., 1990.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'JU DOU', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '94"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English, simplified or traditional Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 007C', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yimou, Zhang', c_copies_in_stock: '2', description: 'In 1930s China a young woman, Jiu\'er, is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies Jiu\'er finds herself inheriting the isolated business and she sets up an idealized, quasi-matriarchal community. Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road. But the community rises up and resists. In the process, Jiu\'er dies.', level: '', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'Mei Ah Entertainment, 1987.', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'HONG GAO LIANG (Red Sorghum)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '91"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with optional English, simplified or traditional Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 075', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Gu, Changwei', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'The story is set in the 1970s in a small town in China. A middle aged couple has three children. The eldest son is obese and mentally challenged, therefore he is teased and outcast by others. The second child is an outgoing and energetic daughter, who is not afraid of doing anything to pursue her dreams or to survive. The youngest child is a shy and quiet boy who is ashamed by his older brother and tries to break away from the misery in his family. The three sections focusing on each of these siblings, the film allows us to look into the lives of ordinary Chinese people the 70s.', level: 'Intermediate to advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'Video CD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '2005', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'KONG QUE (Peacock)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '136"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 076', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Chow, Stephen', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'It is 1940\'s China, and gangs rule the city. The most notorious of them all is the Axe Gang, lead by the insane Brother Sum. A slum called Pig Sty Alley is the only area safe from the Axes because the people there are so poor. Soon, wannabe gangster Sing and his pal Bone attempt to extort money out of a barber and fail, drawing the real Axe Gang to Pig Sty. However, it turns out that there are several kung fu masters living in the slum, and soon the two sides are enemies. As the plot thickens, Sing must decide- should he become a mobster, or save the day?', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '2005', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GONG FU (Kung Fu Hustle)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 077', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Wong, Kar Wai', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'He was a writer. He thought he wrote about the future but it really was the past. In his novel, a mysterious train left for 2046 every once in a while. Everyone who went there had the same intention.....to recapture their lost memories. It was said that in 2046, nothing ever changed. Nobody knew for sure if it was true, because nobody who went there had ever come back- except for one. He was there. He chose to leave. He wanted to change.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '2004', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: '2046', video_color: 'ColorB&W', video_length: '129"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 078', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Ming', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Mai Qiang is a 30-year old bachelor, with little in his life besides his job at an isolated signal station. Chen Qing is a a widow with a young child. Her boss Lao Mo believes she has been raped, so he reports the crime to the neighborhood cop, who investigates.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: '1996', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WU SHAN YUN YU (Rainclouds over Wushan)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '95"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with optional Chinese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 079', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Yu, Bai', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'At the time Zhang Muran finished middle school, she was found to have cancer. But her smiling in the face of pain influenced the people around her. Out of people\'s expectation, she took the pain as one part of life experience. Based on a true story.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2005', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHAO NU MURAN (The Young Girl Muran)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '102"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 080', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Bingjian', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'An unfaithful photographer has a hallucination of killing his wife after he\'s involved in an accident. His neighbor, an elderly psychiatrist who feels dubious about him, gives him counseling. What actually happened to Meizi!? Suffocation offers a did-he-kill-her? plot and cinematography and music that captures the darkness lurking in the human mind.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2005', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'ZHIXI (Suffocation)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '89"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 081', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'He, Ping', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is threatened by thieves, however, the two warriors might unite to protect the travelers.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2003', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'TIAN DI YING XIONG (Warriors of Heaven and Earth)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '114"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 082', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhang, Yimou', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'Government officers Leo and Jin set out to destroy an underground rebellion called the House of Flying Daggers. Their only chance to find the rebels is a blind women named Mei who has some lethal kung fu moves of her own. In the guise of an aspiring rebel, Jin escorts Mei through gorgeous forests and fields that become bloody battlegrounds as soldiers try to kill them both. Mei, Jin, and Leo turn against each other in surprising ways, driven by passion and honour.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2004', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHI MIAN MAI FU (House of Flying Daggers)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '119"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 083', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zheng, Xiaolong', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'When Datong\'s father visits from China, he performs some traditional Chinese medicine (the "Gua Sha" treatment) on his young grandson. Though painless, the treatment leaves bright red marks on the skin, which are interpreted by the boy\'s teacher as welts. Soon the Child Welfare Agency is accusing the family of child abuse and transfers the boy to a foster home...', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2001', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'GUA SHA (The Gau Sha Treatment)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'English with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 084', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Hu, Ann', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: '"Beauty Remains" is the story of two half sisters--Fei and Ying--bound together by the will of their late father, and their shared love for a charismatic ex-boxer, Huang. They are two women whose paths have been dictated by the often cruel decrees of the men in their lives--two women who must somehow transcend that influence...or lose everything.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2004', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'MEI REN YI JIU (The Beauty Remains)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '87"', video_subtitles: 'Mandarin with Chinese or English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 085', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Xu, Jinglei', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'After Xiao Yu\'s mother dies in an accident, she moves back to live with her birth father who she knows very little. Gradually, they grew to know each other and to accept each other for who they are. They share the unconditional love between a daughter and a father through their happiness and their difficulties.', level: 'Advanced level.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2003', submitted_by: 'Chen', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'WO HE BA BA (My Father and I)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '90"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with Chinese subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 086', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Lectures, Speeches, Interviews', 'Culture'], author_or_director: '', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'This is an online TV show. It explores Chinese society and the Chinese\'s point of view towards romance through street interviews. DVD 1 is PAL, Region 2 and includes: Double Happiness, Bling Bling in Beijing, Lost in Translation, Country Living, Weddings Gone Wild. DVD 2 is NTSC Region 1 and includes: Country Living, Weddings Gone Wild.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '1', publication_info: 'China, 2006', submitted_by: 'Liang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SEXY BEIJING', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '', video_subtitles: 'DVD 1- in Chinese and English with no subtitles. DVD 2 - in Chinese and English with no subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 087', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Zhangke, Jia', c_copies_in_stock: '1', description: 'A look at the daily loves, friendships, and desperate dreams of the twenty somethings from China\'s remote provinces who live and work at Beijing\'s World Park, a theme park with lavish shows performed amid scaled down replicas of the world\'s famous landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower or the Taj Mahal.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '2', publication_info: 'China, 2004', submitted_by: 'Liang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'SHIJIE (The World)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '139"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with optional English subtitles.' } , { label: 'CH 088', type: 'Item', language: 'Chinese', areas_written: [ 'Films'], author_or_director: 'Lee, Ang', c_copies_in_stock: '3', description: 'Every Sunday, venerable chef Chu prepares an elaborate dinner for his three lovely daughters. Despite Chu\'s exotic dishes, the family barely nibbles at the food. The listless mealtime ritual mirrors the foursome\'s general lack of appetite for life: Chu has lost his sense of taste, and his daughters just want to go on with their separate, lonely lives. But something new is cooking that is about to spice up everyone\'s existence, and three marriages and a funeral later, the Chu family will learn to embrace life\'s unpredictability.', level: 'All levels.', media_type_in_lab: [ 'DVD'], number_of_copies: '3', publication_info: 'China, 1994', submitted_by: 'Liang', text_or_script: 'No text.', title: 'YIN SHI NAN NU (Eat Drink Man Woman)', video_color: 'Color', video_length: '124"', video_subtitles: 'Chinese with English, French or Spanish subtitles.' } ] }