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Lin Haiyin (Chinese: 林海音; March 18, 1918 – December 1, 2001) was a Taiwanese writer of Han Chinese ethnicity. She is best known for her 1960 book My Memories of Old Beijing (城南舊事), a novelistic tribute to her childhood reminiscences of Beijing. Lin was born in Osaka, Japan, where her father (of Jiaoling, Guangdong origin) worked ...
My Memories of Old Beijing,a feature film based on Lin Haiyin's novel of the same title and directed by Wu Yigong in 1982, is called a prose-like film for its unique artistic pursuit. A scene from My Memories of Old Beijing. The film shows the society and the miserable life of the people in the 1920s in Beijing through the eyes of a naive girl.
Seen through the gaze of a curious 11-year-old girl, the film is director Wu Yigong’s homage to a China 60 years gone. Based on writer Lin Haiyin’s childhood as a young girl in 1920s Beijing, it looks into China’s irretrievable past now only accessible through fractured and melancholic memory.
ian. my memories of old beijing is about childhood, but its tone feels totally antithetical to that, it feels mournful rather than nostalgic. very little good happens in this film. people are ostracised, they're arrested, they see their families die or they die themselves. even in the moments of calm and childish laughter, the backdrop is ...
Song Ma. Min Zhang. Xiuzhen. Yan Xiang. Actor. Yuan Jiayi. Actor. Advertise With Us. A woman recalls her childhood and the troubled times of China in the 1930s.
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Ming Yi. cam. Weiye Cao. cast. Jie Shen, Zhenyao Zheng, Min Zhang, Fengyi Zheng, Xiang Yan, Jiayi Yuan. The most acclaimed of recent Chinese films, and a remarkable achievement for its comparatively young director, Wu Yigong. It's a dreamy, languorous evocation of a ’30s childhood in the southern suburbs of Beijing which, against all odds ...
Jan 27, 2023 · My Memories of Old Beijing describes the amazing experience of a little girl, Yingzi, and her childhood. When talking about childhood, most of the words that come to mind are “carefree” and ...
