{"id":2142,"date":"2011-01-11T21:53:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T02:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2011-01-13T00:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T05:23:44","slug":"tales-of-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2142","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1468\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 156px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MaoZedong_portrait_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1468\" title=\"MaoZedong_portrait_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/MaoZedong_portrait_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What you need is a Struggle Session, my loose-lipped friend&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just uploaded is a review of Bruce Beresford&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/m\/3730_MaosLastDancer.htm\">Mao&#8217;s Last Dancer<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2116\">M<\/a>], a promising but rather melodramatic docu-drama based on Li Cunxin&#8217;s autobiography, and built around the international incident caused by his desire to remain in the United States while on a dance exchange program in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>The film has yet to be released on DVD in the U.S., but Canada&#8217;s Mongrel has issued the film on DVD and Blu-ray. The BR wasn&#8217;t available for review, but from the specs it seems both the bare bones DVD and somewhat goosed BR are derived from the Australian editions.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, the review is now online, as is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/m\/MP3_0257_MaosLastDancer.htm\">soundtrack album<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2128\">M<\/a>], which was released online in the U.S. by Lakeshore Records, featuring Christopher Gordon&#8217;s strong orchestral score + classical extracts.<\/p>\n<p>Because <strong>Mao&#8217;s Last Dancer<\/strong> makes less than a stellar impact but pricks an interest in China&#8217;s rcent history, I&#8217;ve also reviewed the PBS series <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/c\/3731_ChinaCenturyOfRevolution.htm\">China: A Century of Revolution<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2120\">M<\/a>], released by Zeitgeist. It&#8217;s a superb, fact-heavy series created by Sue Williams and Kathryn Pierce Dietz that frankly everyone should watch (or try to, given it is 6 hours long) because it&#8217;s such a wonderful primer on the country&#8217;s political and recent cultural history.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just uploaded are reviews of Bruce Beresford\u2019s Mao\u2019s Last Dancer (Mongrel) plus Christopher Gordon&#8217;s soundtrack (Lakeshore Records), and the superb PBS documentary series China: A Century of Revolution (Zeitgeist)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,32,250,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-yy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2184,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/2184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}