Visions of a lost civilization
By Bruce Humes | China Daily | Updated: 2010-09-20 07:47
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The Ewenki songstress Alima plays the lead role of a shaman in the film adapted from the novel Right Bank of the Ergun. Provided to China Daily |
Chi Zijian's characters exist in a world that is both banal and mundane, but it is one that is also filled with the rituals and magic of the semi-nomadic, animistic culture of the Greater Hinggan Mountains. Bruce Humes reports
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