All articles by Liz Shackleton and Sen-lun Yu

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    Festival review: Shanghai International Film Festival

    2008-06-27T00:00:00Z

    It was always going to be a difficult year for the Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff). The festival is striving to re-invent itself but China has recently suffered a series of calamities, both man-made and natural, that inevitably cast a shadow over this year's event.Chief among these was the May ...

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    Cannes competition entry faces Chinese censor

    2006-04-24T00:00:00Z

    LouYe's Summer Palace, the sole Chinese film incompetition at Cannes this year, will be screened for the China Film Bureaulater this week in what should be an interesting test case of the country'scurrent censorship environment.Thefilm was approved at script stage and filmed through official channels, butaccording to Chinese regulations, the ...