Chinese film, television and tourism

Author: Editorial Committee of "Chinese Film and Television Tourism"
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: Spanning 100 years of Chinese cinema, this book selects 128 classic TV dramas, takes you on a tour of 10 major film and television shooting locations across China and 560 filming sites, guiding you into a new realm where film and tourism interact. This is a movie ticket. The earth is the screen, and your eyes are the projector. Many unknown villages, vast wildernesses, rivers, and old houses will leave us lingering in admiration, gazing thoughtfully. These places may not have always been this beautiful, and they may not always be this beautiful now, but they will always be this beautiful. Those remote places, once embraced by film, seem like gems in the soil that emit a captivating glow. So, let us hold this movie ticket and begin our journey.
Film is the art of time and space. The time presented by film disappears, and the space changes—everything requires our cinematic imagination to restore it. As we walk through the hutongs of Beijing, we may unexpectedly meet the determined gaze of Xiangzi, a man who clings to life, in a fleeting moment. In the beauty of Fenghuang Mountain, every feeling we experience is a debt to the old man named Shen Congwen. As we pass through 21st-century Shanghai, turning into a narrow alley can effortlessly immerse us in the Shanghai of Eileen Chang, and not far away, we can sense the fierce rivalries of Shanghai No. 1. Though the red sorghum once planted by Zhang Yimou has been harvested by the local people countless times, the tragic bugle calls always echo clearly in our ears when the wind passes through them. Despite the city's expansion, the emotional entanglements of the young men and women in Spring in a Small Town still haunt the urban middle class today. Not to mention the misty Lushan, the rainy pines of Huangshan, and the perilous peaks of Mount Hua. With the help of film, we can make the colorful crowds on the mountain disappear at the command of an old woman, as in Dust, leaving only us—or the people you choose—and together, we can experience the Huangshan and Lushan of your story.