Mao - A Chinese Histoire
You always find strange stuff in Taiwan (the best and the worst) and I saw one last night in NCCU. Before showing you the picture, I must mention that NCCU (國立政治大學) is a university (where I was a student once) located in Taipei and mainly ruled by "blue" (KMT) people following the "blue" guideline, thus seeing stuff related to mainland china (such as mainland newspapers, teachers and even students) is quite common. But this was quite awkward :
Not because there is a DVD about Mao edited in Taiwan (that could have been awkward a few years ago, now...) but because the title is written in French ("Mao Une Histoire Chinoise") as well as the whole movie (with chinese subtitles of course), now you have to tell me what is the relationship between Mainland China, Taiwan, Mao and the French languages :)
I haven't see the DVD yet (still reading Mao - The Unknown Story for the second time, not that I love the guys but the book is quite complicated with a lot of names and situations) but it'll be interesting to see it as France and some French people (my dad's family for instance, who were fierce communists in that time) has always been a great support to Mao's regime (The General De Gaulle was among the first western leader to recognize the new Beijing government) and ideology (a lot of current (but old) french politicians claimed to be "Maoist" during their youth) and I guess it'll certainly be felt during the film.
Update : This movie is actually a french/german production for the french/german TV channel ARTE. Amazon says that it contains archives that has never been shown before.
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Nov 10, 2009
7_70 said...
i'm reading mono kultur #22 on ai wei wei - he talks about how life was suring cultural revoluation & now...
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