In 1993, Chen Kaige’s Farewell My Concubine, a sumptuous, decades-spanning epic based on the Lilian Lee novel, became the first Chinese film to win the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, tying with Jane Campion’s period drama The Piano. One of the most notable works from who would become one of the most notable […]

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