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Posted by Tell No Lies on June 29, 2011
A star-studded epic account of the events between the Chinese Revolution in 1911 and the founding of the CCP, Beginning of the Great Revival is this summer’s must see movie in China (in part because it is being played on all available screens, thereby ending the run of Kung Fu Panda 2. It is also playing in several cities in the U.S. We look forward to reviews from our readers.
Maoist Rebel News said
I cannot wait to see this film. I literally cannot wait.
Stiofan said
Actually at my local cineplex here in Nanning, this movie is
playing simultaneously with Kung Fu Panda II. This summer is
full of official commerations of the 90th anniversary of the
founding of the Communist Party of China. That means big banners and posters on public buildings, special publications in the bookstores, and a mini series I watched last night on televison showing Mao meeting with Stalin shortly after liberation.
All of this is rather jarring considering the non stop ‘mall
culture’ of today’s PRC featuring the luxurious lifestyle of the new bourgeoisie. The greater irony is that while the new, new China is undoudbtedly the work of Teng Hsiao P’ing and the ‘It’s glorious to get rich’ line, his image is nowhere to be seen.
Eli M-H said
Gesticulating Lenin at 1:02…
prakash said
do anybody know how can one get this film in India?
Andrei Kuznetsov said
I just pooped my pants a little watching this trailer.
Tell No Lies said
TMI Andrei.
Red Amadeus said
Andrei! They have senior diapers for this sort of thing!
Red Fly said
This looks really good. Hopefully it deals with things in an honest manner and is not just an attempt by the revisionist Chinese leadership to smuggle their bourgeois message into a revolutionary setting.
Li Kui said
Interesting to see everyone’s excitement at this film. Indeed it will be great to watch, but it will reveal more about the current CCP not the one that you are dreaming of. The chances of the CCP writing an “honest message” on this topic is about as likely as the government of Britain holding its hand and apologising about the crimes committed in Ireland.
The Founding of the Republic, released in the last couple of years, was a revisionist history of the rise of the CCP to power that completely deleted any references to the Chinese people’s contribution to the liberation of China and instead attempted to make out Mao as a George Washington figure, a founding father. This film will most probably not be a film of dialectical materialism, or probably one that even hints at class struggle.
One thing I hear increasingly often in China is that China is far from a country of “socialism with Chinese characteristics” and is instead totalitarian capitalism (jiquande zibenzhuyi). The ruling class has lost a lot of credibility amongst large sections of the population and China is desperately crying out for people to organise instead of putting up their hands with the phrase which you hear almost every day, “there’s nothing we can do” (mei banfa).
As the celebrations of the 90th anniversary have been going on throughout the country (and at last there is less chat about Kung Fu Panda 2), let’s use this opportunity to start more discussion about the nature of the Chinese state today and class struggle in China today!