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Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress : [regular print book discussion kit]

At the height of Mao's infamous cultural revolution in China, two boys are exiled to the countryside for re-education. The boys find their salvation in two discoveries: a hidden cache of Chinese translations of western classics and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. DVD.

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  • "Xiao cai feng"
  • "Balzac & the little Chinese seamstress"@en
  • "Balzac et la petite tailleuse Chinoise"
  • "Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise"@en
  • "Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise"
  • "DVDR 5242 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress"@en

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  • ""Luo and Ma, two bourgeois young men from the city are sent to a remote, culturally barren mountain village for re-education in Maoist principles. Discovering a hidden cache of books by western writers such as Flaubert, Dumas and Balzac, the pair transmit their love of art and literature to the knowledge hungry local seamstress, with whom they both promptly fall in love" (container)."
  • "Dai Sijie directs Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise (The Little Chinese Seamstress), a film adaptation of his own best-selling autobiographical novel. Set in China during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, the story follows Luo (Chen Kun) and Ma (Liu Ye), two young men from the city who are sent to a mountain village for a re-education in Maoist principles. They work with the peasants under the supervision of the village head man (Wang Shuangbao), who considers their violin to be a symbol of the bourgeoisie. Luo and Ma both fall in love with the little Chinese seamstress (Ziiou Xun), the daughter of the tailor (Chung Zhijun), and they read her forbidden works of Western literature including French writers Balzac and Dumas. The conclusion finds the two men reminincing about their experiences 30 years later."
  • "In 1971, during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two university students are sent to a mountain mining village with very ignorant peasants and also a Maoist rehabilitation camp, to be reeducated. Both fall in love for the illiterate granddaughter of the local tailor, called "little seamstress." They become friends. Two university students steal forbidden books of western literature. They read the books and teach the little seamstress things she had never imagined. In doing so, they start a journey that would profoundly change her perspective on her world and teach the boys about the power of literature and their own ability to change their world in truly revolutionary ways."
  • "At the height of Mao's infamous cultural revolution in China, two boys are exiled to the countryside for re-education. The boys find their salvation in two discoveries: a hidden cache of Chinese translations of western classics and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor"
  • "Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education. The two see and fall in love with a local beautiful girl."
  • "At the height of Mao's infamous cultural revolution in China, two boys are exiled to the countryside for re-education. The boys find their salvation in two discoveries: a hidden cache of Chinese translations of western classics and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor. DVD."@en
  • "Two young men from the city are sent to a remote mountain village for re-education in Maoist principles. The pair transmit their love of art and literature to the local seamstress, with whom they both fall in love."
  • "At the height of Mao's infamous cultural revolution in China, two boys are exiled to the countryside for re-education. The boys find their salvation in two discoveries: a hidden cache of Chinese translations of western classics and the beautiful daughter of the local tailor."@en
  • "Based on the international best seller, this is set in the early 1970's during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, as two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education."
  • "Set in China in 1971, two students are sent to a mining village as part of their reeducation to purge them of their western ideas. They find a collection of European literature, including the works of Balzac, and fall in love with the village tailor's grandaughter."@en
  • "During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, two boys are sent to the country for reeducation, where their lives take an unexpected turn when they meet the beautiful daughter of a local tailor and stumble upon a forbidden stash of Western literature."@en
  • "Two young men sent to re-education camps during the Chinese cultural revolution meet and fall in love with a young woman as they read her books from forbidden Western authors."
  • "Set in the early 1970s during the later stages of China's Cultural Revolution, two city-bred teenage best friends are sent to a backward mountainous region for Maoist re-education."

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  • "Motion pictures, Chinese"
  • "Books"
  • "Drama"
  • "Biographical films"
  • "General fiction"@en
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Book discussion kit"@en
  • "Handbooks, manuals, etc"
  • "Video recordings"@en
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Melodrama"

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  • "Balzac and the little Chinese Seamstress"
  • "Xiao cai feng (Motion picture)"
  • "Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress a tailor made romance"
  • "Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress : [regular print book discussion kit]"@en
  • "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress"@en
  • "Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress [KIT]"
  • "Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress"
  • "Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress"@en

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