wu Hao Taichi

Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diary and faxes her pages daily. Liang is also rehearsing for a new film that is due to go into production soon. The film, entitled Haonan Haonu, is about a couple Chiang Bi-yu and Chung Hao-tung who returns to China to participate in the anti-Japanese movement in China in the 1940s and are arrested as communists when they go back to Taiwan.

Zhuangzi e Hui Shi passeggiavano sul ponte sopra il fiume Hao. Zhuangzi osservò: «Quei pesciolini che si aggirano rilassati e senza fretta, sono pesci felici!». Al che, Hui Shi obiettò: «Tu non sei un pesce; come fai a sapere come sta un pesce?». «Quando hai detto “come fai a sapere come sta un pesce?”, sapevi che lo sapevo. Lo sapevo, qui, sopra il fiume Hao.» Il dialogo che apre e dà il titolo a questo libro proviene da uno dei grandi testi dell’umanità, lo Zhuangzi, l’opera del «Maestro Zhuang», figura centrale del taoismo. La sua forza sta «nella capacità di mettere in dubbio ciò che appare ovvio, ribaltare punti di vista e aprire prospettive»..

Saties personal eccentricities have never masked the fact that his music was both revolutionary and anticipatory of later artistic movements, principally Minimalism, Surrealism and Theatre of the Absurd. His piano music offers a perfect distillation of these elements. The Allegro is his earliest known work, offering his first use of quotations, a favored device.

En 1500 avant J-C.,Fu Hao, de la dynastie des Shang, première dynastie chinoise, règna sur la Chine. Cette guerrière fut enterrée avec des métaux et pierres précieuses, des armes ainsi que seize personnes sacrifiées ! De nouvelles découvertes permettent aujourd'hui d'en savoir plus sur cette dynastie, connue pour son goût pour l'alcool ainsi que pour les sacrifices humains. Elles permettent également de mieux connaître cette période de l'histoire de la Chine.