Back to 1942

Back to 1942 2012

一九四二 yī jiǔ sì èr

In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.

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4.79 Intermediate Director Feng Xiaogang 🍅 36%

Cast

Zhang Guoli Zhang Guoli Fan Dianyuan Xu Fan Xu Fan Hua Zhi Zhang Mo Zhang Mo Shuan Zhu Zhang Hanyu Zhang Hanyu An Ximan Chen Daoming Chen Daoming Jiang Jieshi Adrien Brody Adrien Brody Theodore Harold White Tim Robbins Tim Robbins Bishop Megan Wang Ziwen Wang Ziwen Xing Xing Fan Wei Fan Wei Lao Ma Feng Yuanzheng Feng Yuanzheng Xia Lu

Vocabulary

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傻 傻 shǎ foolish HSK 5
抢 搶 qiǎng to fight over; to rush; to scramble; to grab; to rob; to snatch HSK 5
关键 關鍵 guān jiàn crucial point; crux; key; crucial; pivotal HSK 5
放弃 放棄 fàng qì to renounce; to abandon; to give up HSK 5
至 至 zhì to arrive; most; to; until HSK 5
令 令 líng used in 令; used in 狐 (Taiwan pr. [lìng]) HSK 5
组织 組織 zǔ zhī to organize; organization; (biology) tissue; (textiles) weave HSK 5
杀 殺 shā to kill; to murder; to attack; to weaken or reduce; to smart (dialect); (used after a verb) extremely HSK 5
其 其 qí his; her; its; their; that; such; it (refers to sth preceding it) HSK 5
肯定 肯定 kěn dìng to be certain; to be positive; assuredly; definitely; to give recognition; to affirm; affirmative (answer) HSK 5
如此 如此 rú cǐ like this; so; such HSK 5
唯一 唯一 wéi yī only; sole HSK 5
搞 搞 gǎo to do; to make; to go in for; to set up; to get hold of; to take care of HSK 5
将 將 jiāng will; shall; to use; to take; to checkmate; just a short while ago; (introduces object of main verb, used in the same way as 把) HSK 5
可 可 kě (prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit; (particle used for emphasis) certainly; very HSK 5
不见棺材不落泪 不見棺材不落淚 bù jiàn guān cai bù luò lèi lit. not to shed a tear until one sees the coffin (idiom); fig. refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality Idiom ∼HSK 4
天方夜谭 天方夜譚 Tiān fāng Yè tán The Arabian Nights (classic story) Idiom ∼HSK 4
三思而行 三思而行 sān sī ér xíng think three times then go (idiom); don't act before you've thought it through carefully Idiom ∼HSK 4
千辛万苦 千辛萬苦 qiān xīn wàn kǔ to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort Idiom ∼HSK 4
一呼百应 一呼百應 yī hū - bǎi yìng (idiom) (of a call) to elict an enthusiastic response; to receive extensive approval Xiehouyu ∼HSK 4
受不了 受不了 shòu bù liǎo unbearable; unable to endure; can't stand Xiehouyu HSK 4
苦 苦 kǔ bitter; hardship; pain; to suffer; to bring suffering to; painstakingly Xiehouyu HSK 4
无法 無法 wú fǎ unable; incapable Xiehouyu HSK 4
拜拜 拜拜 bái bái (loanword) bye-bye; also pr. [bai1 bai1] etc; (coll.) to part ways (with sb); (fig.) to have nothing further to do (with sb or sth) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
穷 窮 qióng poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly Colloquialism HSK 4
老婆 老婆 lǎo pó (coll.) wife Colloquialism HSK 4
烧 燒 shāo to burn; to cook; to stew; to bake; to roast; to heat; to boil (tea, water etc); fever; to run a temperature; (coll.) to let things go to one's head Colloquialism HSK 4
俩 倆 liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
抱 抱 bào to hold; to carry (in one's arms); to hug; to embrace; to surround; to cherish; (coll.) (of clothes) to fit nicely Colloquialism HSK 4
孙 孫 Sūn Sun (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
李 李 Lǐ Li (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
一战 一戰 Yī zhàn World War I (1914-1918) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
曼德勒 曼德勒 Màn dé lè Mandalay, province and second city of Myanmar (Burma) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
日军 日軍 Rì jūn Japanese army; Japanese troops Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
甘地 甘地 Gān dì (Mahatma) Gandhi Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
延津 延津 Yán jīn Yanjin county in Xinxiang, Henan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
德先生 德先生 Dé xiān sheng "Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement; abbr. for; see also Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
中华民国 中華民國 Zhōng huá Mín guó Republic of China Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
县长 縣長 xiàn zhǎng county's head commissioner Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
罗斯福 羅斯福 Luó sī fú Roosevelt (name); Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US President 1901-1909; Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), US President 1933-1945 Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
斯大林格勒 斯大林格勒 Sī dà lín gé lè Stalingrad, former name of Volvograd 伏爾加格勒|伏尔加格勒 (1925-1961) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
普利策奖 普利策獎 Pǔ lì cè jiǎng Pulitzer Prize Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
高斯 高斯 Gāo sī Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), German mathematician Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
监察院 監察院 Jiān chá yuàn Control Yuan, a watchdog under the constitution of Republic of China, then of Taiwan Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
大公报 大公報 Dà gōng Bào Dagong Bao, popular newspaper name; Ta Kung Pao, newspaper founded 1902 in Beijing, now published in Hong Kong Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
开罗 開羅 Kāi luó Cairo, capital of Egypt Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
美苏 美蘇 Měi Sū American-Soviet (tension, rapprochement etc) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
斯大林格勒战役 斯大林格勒戰役 Sī dà lín gé lè Zhàn yì Battle of Stalingrad (1942-1943), decisive battle of Second World War and one of the bloodiest battles in history, when the Germans failed to take Stalingrad, were then trapped and destroyed by Soviet forces Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
宋美龄 宋美齡 Sòng Měi líng Soong Mei-ling (1898-2003), Chiang Kai-shek's second wife Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
丘吉尔 丘吉爾 Qiū jí ěr variant of Proper Noun ∼HSK 4