Mentions personal use of In the Name of the People.

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…Give us a title, one title. Mountains May Depart, but let me throw in one title also from Zhang Yimou. I believe the English name is The Story of Qiu Zhi. This is, I believe, mid-’80s Zhang Yimou, in which you have a Gong Li, who is fabulous as always, walking through the Chinese countryside in a northwestern city, probably around Xi’an. What you see are these street scenes of Deng Xiaoping’s China, just that it is starting to bustle. I think it is a movie about bureaucracy, and it is a movie about courts. I think the Chinese are really wonderful at portraying bureaucracy. There are a lot of these genres of bureaucracy porn in terms of some of their novels, which could be fun reading for some people, especially if you work inside the US federal government, you can see some parallels. The best Chinese TV series in recent years, not that it is very good, all these Chinese series are too long, but I watched a couple of episodes of an anti-corruption drama called In the Name of the People. In the very first episode, you have three men spending about half the episode arguing about jurisdiction. What could be more jurisdictional? What could be more bureaucratic than jurisdiction, right? Why isn’t contemporary Chinese music better than it is, or maybe you would challenge the premise? It is a huge market. It’s censored, but music can be wonderful, and still be censored, right?…

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