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Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US-China Relations
In 1971, Americans made two historic visits to China that would transform relations between the two countries. One was by US official Henry Kissinger; the other, earlier, visit was by the US table tennis team. Historians have mulled over the transcripts of Kissinger's negotiations with Chinese leaders. However, they have overlooked how, alongside these diplomatic talks, a rich program of travel and exchange had begun with ping-pong diplomacy. Improbable Diplomats reveals how a diverse cast of Chinese and Americans — athletes and physicists, performing artists and seismologists — played a critical, but to date overlooked, role in remaking US-China relations. Based on new sources from more than a dozen archives in China and the United States, Pete Millwood argues that the significance of cultural and scientific exchanges went beyond reacquainting the Chinese and American people after two decades of minimal contact; exchanges also powerfully influenced Sino-American diplomatic relations and helped transform post-Mao China READ MORE...
記錄片放映: 《蕭軍六記》 及 映後座談會
《蕭軍六記》圍繞左翼作家蕭軍起伏跌宕的人生，呈現了他所經歷的二十世紀的中國。1931 年日軍侵占東北之後，他和蕭紅逃離哈爾濱，在上海受到新文學之父魯迅先生的提携，以《八月的鄉村》蜚聲文壇。從東北到上海、到延安、到北京，蕭軍所交往的文學名家無數，與蕭紅是三十年代最著名的文壇雋侶，與胡風和聶紺弩同爲魯迅“最後的弟子”，與丁玲、艾青、舒群、白朗、羅烽等人的友誼複雜而深厚。蕭軍一直秉承魯迅精神，不願為任何政治黨派左右。抗戰期間，他在延安結識了毛澤東、周恩來、陳雲、彭真等中國共產黨高級領導人，但本人卻一直未入黨。 本片透過導演從 2003 年至 2020 年之間對很多文壇名家所作的訪談，采納蕭軍本人 1980 年所作四次公開演講的錄音做旁白，讓觀衆能夠聆聽他的聲音。同時，跟隨蕭軍蕭紅的旅程，影片呈現了 1920 年代末的東北，1930 年代的哈爾濱、青島、上海、武漢、臨汾、西安、蘭州，1940 年代的延安、香港、瀋陽，以及 1950 至 1980 年代北京的景象，展示了超過半個世紀的歷史畫卷 READ MORE...