Memoirs from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China’s Fifth Generation by Ni Zhen, translated by Chris Berry [in AsianWeek]
01 Jan, by in Adult Readers, Chinese, Memoir, Nonfiction, Repost, Translation
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