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Zhang Yimou’s The Flowers of War

After watching the trailer for Zhang Yimou’s new film ‘The Flowers of War’, I can’t help being intrigued by the movie. Based on the novel ‘The 13 Women of Nanjing’ by writer Yan Geling, the film is set during a period which has become historically known as the Nanking Massacre, also called the Rape of Nanking. In 1937, during the ...

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