Much Like Life: Wang Zijun & Sun Yongsheng’s Notes From Beijing

By way of disclaimer, some years back I collaborated with one of the lead organizers of Spectacle Theater’s STRUCTURE. WAVE. YOUTH. CINEMA. (SWYC) series (and former In Review Online EIC), Sam C. Mac, on subtitles for a documentary series much like those making up the program of SWYC. The series in question was River Elegy, an at times sentimental, topically wide-ranging, and quasi-intellectual affair broadcast on China Central Television (CCTV) in 1988 and viewed by then contemporary Chinese leaders as...