By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – "City of Life and Death" might sound like your average escapist action film helping to usher in the summer movie season. But it’s not. The 2-hour black and white epic recounts the early day... ...full story at NBC World Blog
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Nanking Massacre -movie by a Chinese Movie Director(陆川) »
YouTube video Another new Movie "Nanking Nanking " is in the making by a Chinese movie director Lu Chuan(陆川).CHINESE director Lu Chuan is to start shooting an epic war movie featuring the Nanjing Massacre in June after receiving official approval for the project.
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Beijing steps up battle against smog » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer BEIJING – Twenty-two days before the Olympic Games open here, the capital is awash in smog – an unseasonably thick haze that seems part pollution, part humidity. Adrienne Mong / NBC News A typical mor... |
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China’s Muslim dilemma in ‘The New Frontier’ » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer KHOTAN, Xinjiang Autonomous Region – Across much of China, strangers upon being introduced will ask each other, "Where is your ancestral home?" Adrienne Mong / NBC News An Uighur couple in Khotan But in t... |
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The Sleeping Giant wakes...Not » NBC World Blog By Adrienne Mong, NBC News producer BEIJING – It’s rare that those of us at the NBC News Beijing bureau ever envy Chinese politicians. But around this time of the year, some of us wouldn’t mind trading places with members of China’s legi... |
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How much truth is there in The Truth about Nanjing? » Shanghaiist Japanese filmmaker Satoru Mizushima (水島総) was not too happy about Nanking, the American documentary about the Nanking Massacre. So he set out to create his own film The Truth about Nanjing (南京の真実, Nanking no shinjitsu) to set straight w... |