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Memories of a Socialist Inbetweener

April 27, 2020Profilesdaisyyandu

By Diana Luen Wah Hui; translated by Yixing Li A photograph of the Uproar in Heaven (1961) crew and the director Wan Laiming brings me back to the days when I was working in the Shanghai Animation Film Studio (Fig 1).          Fig 1: the crew of Uproar in Heaven In the animation workshop of Shanghai … Continue reading Memories of a Socialist Inbetweener →

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