摘要
AFTER ten years of silence since his Blue Kite of 1992, earlier this year Tian Zhuangzhuang, one of the most respected of China’s fifth-generation directors, made his version of Spring in a Small Town. A classic film originally directed by Fei Mu in 1948, it is Tian’s favorite. He has watched the film at least once a year for the past decade, each time with fresh anticipation.