Dead Souls 2018
死灵魂
In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as ultra-rightists in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
Vocabulary
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| 胜利 勝利 | victory | |
| 领导 領導 | lead; leading; to lead; leadership; leader | |
| 成员 成員 | member | |
| 直 直 | straight; to straighten; fair and reasonable; frank; straightforward; (indicates continuing motion or action); vertical; vertical downward stroke in Chinese characters | |
| 系 係 | to connect; to relate to; to tie up; to bind; to be (literary) | |
| 皮 皮 | leather; skin; fur; pico- (one trillionth); naughty | |
| 反对 反對 | to oppose; to be against; to object to | |
| 按照 按照 | according to; in accordance with; in the light of; on the basis of | |
| 经济 經濟 | economy; economic | |
| 外面 外面 | outside (also pr. [wài mian] for this sense); surface; exterior; external appearance | |
| 空 空 | empty; air; sky; in vain | |
| 文件 文件 | document; file | |
| 事业 事業 | undertaking; project; activity; (charitable, political or revolutionary) cause; publicly funded institution, enterprise or foundation; career; occupation | |
| 范围 範圍 | range; scope; limit; extent | |
| 朝 朝 | abbr. for 朝鲜 Korea | |
| 标准 標準 | standard; norm; criterion; (adjective) standard; good; correct; conforming to a standard | |
| 错误 錯誤 | mistaken; false; wrong; error; mistake | |
| 后面 後面 | the back; the rear; the last bit; behind; near the end; at the back; later; afterwards | |
| 传 傳 | to pass on; to spread; to transmit; to infect; to transfer; to circulate; to conduct (electricity) | |
| 直到 直到 | until | |
| 刀 刀 | surname Dao | |
| 破 破 | broken; damaged; worn out; lousy; rotten; to break, split or cleave; to get rid of; to destroy; to break with; to defeat; to capture (a city etc); to expose the truth of | |
| 集中 集中 | to concentrate; to centralize; to focus; centralized; concentrated; to put together | |
| 变化 變化 | (intransitive) to change; to vary; change; variation | |
| 上面 上面 | on top of; above-mentioned; also pr. [shàng mian] | |
| 实际上 實際上 | in fact; in reality; as a matter of fact; in practice | |
| 救 捄 | to save; to assist; to rescue | |
| 乱 亂 | in confusion or disorder; in a confused state of mind; disorder; upheaval; riot; illicit sexual relations; to throw into disorder; to mix up; indiscriminate; random; arbitrary | |
| 火 火 | fire; urgent; ammunition; fiery or flaming; internal heat (Chinese medicine); hot (popular); classifier for military units (old); Kangxi radical 86 | |
| 照 炤 | according to; in accordance with; to shine; to illuminate; to reflect; to look at (one's reflection); to take (a photo); photo; as requested; as before | |
| 困难 困難 | difficult; challenging; straitened circumstances; difficult situation | |
| 相当 相當 | equivalent to; appropriate; considerably; to a certain extent; fairly; quite | |
| 表演 表演 | play; show; performance; exhibition; to perform; to act; to demonstrate | |
| 地区 地區 | local; regional; district (not necessarily formal administrative unit); region; area; as suffix to city name, means prefecture or county (area administered by a prefecture-level city or, county-level city) | |
| 类 類 | kind; type; class; category; similar; like; to resemble | |
| 基本 基本 | basic; fundamental; main; elementary | |
| 本来 本來 | original; originally; at first; it goes without saying; of course | |
| 挂 掛 | to hang or suspend (from a hook etc); to hang up (the phone); (of a line) to be dead; to be worried or concerned; to make a phone call (dialect); to register or record; classifier for sets or clusters of objects; (slang) to kill; to die; to be finished; to fail (an exam) | |
| 仅 僅 | barely; only; merely | |
| 仍 仍 | still; yet; to remain; (literary) frequently; often | |
| 属于 屬於 | to be classified as; to belong to; to be part of | |
| 深 㴱 | deep (lit. and fig.) | |
| 过程 過程 | course of events; process | |
| 同意 同意 | to agree; to consent; to approve | |
| 母亲 母親 | mother; also pr. [mǔ qin] | |
| 由于 由於 | due to; as a result of; thanks to; owing to; since; because | |
| 人民 人民 | the people | |
| 报 報 | to announce; to inform; report; newspaper; recompense; revenge | |
| 会议 會議 | meeting; conference | |
| 人生 人生 | life (one's time on earth) |