Back to Back, Face to Face 1994
背靠背，脸对脸
Wang Shuangli is Deputy Director of the local Cultural Centre, and hopes to be appointed Director. However Old Ma is brought in from the country and installed as Director. This starts a long train of events with Wang's cronies using the bureaucracy to try to oust the new director.
Vocabulary
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| 防 防 | to protect; to defend; to guard against; to prevent | |
| 费 費 | to cost; to spend; fee; wasteful; expenses | |
| 赶紧 趕緊 | hurriedly; without delay | |
| 内心 內心 | heart; innermost being; (math.) incenter | |
| 反正 反正 | anyway; in any case; to come over from the enemy's side | |
| 信任 信任 | to trust; to have confidence in | |
| 文章 文章 | article; essay; literary works; writings; hidden meaning | |
| 成熟 成熟 | mature; ripe; to mature; to ripen; Taiwan pr. [chéng shóu] | |
| 合理 合理 | rational; reasonable; sensible; fair | |
| 取消 取消 | to cancel; cancellation | |
| 立刻 立刻 | forthwith; immediate; prompt; promptly; straightway; thereupon; at once | |
| 经营 經營 | to engage in (business etc); to run; to operate | |
| 公开 公開 | open; overt; public; to make public; to release | |
| 制作 製作 | to make; to manufacture | |
| 旧 舊 | old; opposite: new 新; former; worn (with age) | |
| 修 修 | to decorate; to embellish; to repair; to build; to write; to cultivate; to study; to take (a class) | |
| 发表 發表 | to issue; to publish | |
| 重大 重大 | great; important; major; significant | |
| 千万 千萬 | ten million; countless; many; one must by all means | |
| 咖啡 咖啡 | coffee (loanword) | |
| 布 佈 | cloth; to declare; to announce; to spread; to make known | |
| 建 建 | to establish; to found; to set up; to build; to construct | |
| 压 壓 | to press; to push down; to keep under (control); pressure | |
| 慢慢 慢慢 | slowly | |
| 具体 具體 | concrete; definite; specific | |
| 文化 文化 | culture; civilization; cultural | |
| 顿 頓 | to stop; to pause; to arrange; to lay out; to kowtow; to stamp (one's foot); at once; classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal | |
| 演 演 | to develop; to evolve; to practice; to perform; to play; to act | |
| 大概 大概 | roughly; probably; rough; approximate; about; general idea | |
| 紧 緊 | tight; strict; close at hand; near; urgent; tense; hard up; short of money; to tighten | |
| 团 團 | round; lump; ball; to roll into a ball; to gather; regiment; group; society; classifier for a lump or a soft mass: wad (of paper), ball (of wool), cloud (of smoke) | |
| 猪 豬 | hog; pig; swine | |
| 乐 樂 | happy; cheerful; to laugh | |
| 等待 等待 | to wait; to wait for | |
| 思想 思想 | thought; thinking; idea; ideology | |
| 麻烦 麻煩 | trouble; inconvenience; inconvenient; troublesome; annoying; to bother sb; to put sb to trouble | |
| 艺术 藝術 | art | |
| 调 調 | to transfer; to move (troops or cadres); to investigate; to enquire into; accent; view; argument; key (in music); mode (music); tune; tone; melody | |
| 姑娘 姑娘 | girl; young woman; young lady; daughter; paternal aunt (old) | |
| 期 朞 | a period of time; phase; stage; classifier for issues of a periodical, courses of study; time; term; period; to hope; Taiwan pr. [qí] | |
| 宣布 宣佈 | to declare; to announce; to proclaim | |
| 下面 下面 | below; under; next; the following; also pr. [xià mian] | |
| 代 代 | to substitute; to act on behalf of others; to replace; generation; dynasty; age; period; (historical) era; (geological) eon | |
| 领导 領導 | lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader | |
| 直 直 | straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 室 室 | room; work unit; grave; scabbard; family or clan; one of the 28 constellations of Chinese astronomy | |
| 作品 作品 | work (of art); opus | |
| 按照 按照 | according to; in accordance with; in the light of; on the basis of | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 空 空 | empty; air; sky; in vain |