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\"Memoirs<\/a>A thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the 1982 class known as the Fifth Generation. While the two most famous representatives are Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, Professor Ni \u2013 who was both their teacher and their screenwriter \u2013 gives a much fuller view of the 153 classmates. He adds, \u201cFifth generation cinemas was not just men\u2019s business,\u201d making reference to several, successful women makers. On a sadder note, Ni unnecessarily apologizes that the latter three chapters in his Memoirs<\/em> are not as strong as the first, tragically because he was nursing his late wife through her final days.<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong>:\u00a0“Diasporic Proliferation or: We’re Here, There and Everywhere … and Growing,” Push ><\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

“New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek<\/em>, March 28, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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\"MemoirsA thoroughly enjoyable combination of memoir entwined with film, social, and political history by a professor from the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, which graduated the 1982 class known as the Fifth Generation. While the two most famous representatives are Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, Professor Ni \u2013 who was both their teacher and their screenwriter \u2013 gives a much fuller view of the 153 classmates. He adds, \u201cFifth generation cinemas was not just men\u2019s business,\u201d making reference to several, successful women makers. On a sadder note, Ni unnecessarily apologizes that the latter three chapters in his Memoirs<\/em> are not as strong as the first, tragically because he was nursing his late wife through her final days.<\/p>\n

Reviews<\/strong>: “Diasporic Proliferation or: We’re Here, There and Everywhere … and Growing,” Push ><\/em>, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002<\/a><\/p>\n

“New and Notable Books,” AsianWeek<\/em>, March 28, 2003<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

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