Date: Wednesday\, Septemb er 30th
Time: 10am Pacific Time
Locati on: Online via YouTube
RSVP: Not required - join here or search “Chinese Film Classics Love Eve rlasting” on YouTube
Details:
Please join us f or an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Eileen Chang !
September 30\, 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the b irth of Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing 張愛玲\, 1920-1995)\, one of the most accla imed writers of the twentieth century. In celebration\, the Modern Chinese Cultural Studies YouTube channel is hostin g a special premiere of Professor Christopher Rea’s new translation of Chan g’s first produced film screenplay Love Everlasting 不了情 (1947). Starring Che n Yanyan and Liu Qiong\, the film dramatizes a story of love\, social press ure\, and a young woman in an impossible situation.
During the 93-min ute screening\, join Christopher Rea (UBC Profess or of Modern Chinese Literature) and Renren Yang (UBC Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Popular Culture) for a live chat (in the YouTube Premiere comments sidebar) about the film and its relations to literary and cinematic culture\, as well as to the life of Eileen Chang.
About the Film:
Yu Jiayin\, a young professiona l woman\, takes a job in Shanghai as the in-house tutor of an eight-year-ol d girl\, only to fall in love with the girl’s father\, Xia Zongyu–a married man. Jiayin’s good-for-nothing father arrives in town and starts trying to exploit the situation for his own benefit. Then Zongyu’s sickly wife arriv es from the countryside\, and Jiayin finds that an already compromising sit uation is becoming unbearable. What will she do?
Love Everlasting (als o known as Unending Love) was the first of several collaborations between Eileen Chang and director Sang Hu. Later in 1947\, for example\, Ch ang and Sang teamed up again on the film comedy Long Live the Missus! 太太萬歲 (1947) (featuring much of the same supporting cast)\; that year\, Chang also revised her “Unending Lo ve” screenplay into the story “How Much Regret” 多少恨\, which was published i n a magazine Sang edited.
Subtitles translated by Christopher Rea. Su btitles created by UBC PhD student Liu Yuqing.
< strong>About the Chinese Film Classics Project:
Love Everlasting is the twenty-first Republican-era film with new Eng lish subtitles added to the Chinese Film Classics YouTube playlist. Subscribe to the M odern Chinese Cultural Studies YouTube channel\, hosted by Christopher Rea\, for announcements and updates about new videos\, including a free onl ine course about early Chinese cinema\, which will go live this fall on the channel and on www.chinesefilm classics.org.
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