China’s hugely successful period dramas could be facing increased scrutiny from the Communist Party and its ever-widening dragnet of cultural censorship. In the spotlight is “Story of Yanxi Palace,” ...
Based as it is on one real-life island of humanity amid the staggering brutality and destruction of Japan's so-called "Rape of Nanking" in 1937, Chinese director Zhang Yimou's "The Flowers of War" is ...