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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| 寺 寺 | Buddhist temple; mosque; government office (old) | |
| 恰好 恰好 | as it turns out; by lucky coincidence; (of number, time, size etc) just right | |
| 选拔 選拔 | to select the best | |
| 马车 馬車 | cart; chariot; carriage; buggy | |
| 政权 政權 | regime; political power | |
| 传言 傳言 | rumor; hearsay | |
| 有事 有事 | to be occupied with sth; to have sth on one's mind; there is something the matter | |
| 次数 次數 | number of times; frequency; order number (in a series); power (math.); degree of a polynomial (math.) | |
| 出路 出路 | a way out (lit. and fig.); opportunity for advancement; a way forward; outlet (for one's products) | |
| 村庄 村莊 | village; hamlet | |
| 没收 沒收 | to confiscate; to seize | |
| 墓 墓 | grave; tomb; mausoleum | |
| 拿走 拿走 | to take away | |
| 贫困 貧困 | impoverished; poverty | |
| 织 織 | to weave | |
| 挨 挨 | in order; in sequence; close to; adjacent to | |
| 难忘 難忘 | unforgettable | |
| 景 景 | (bound form) scenery; circumstance; situation; scene (of a play); (literary) sunlight | |
| 审查 審查 | to examine; to investigate; to censor out; censorship | |
| 场地 場地 | space; site; place; sports pitch | |
| 发起 發起 | to originate; to initiate; to launch (an attack, an initiative etc); to start; to propose sth (for the first time) | |
| 晓得 曉得 | to know | |
| 跪 跪 | to kneel | |
| 吞 吞 | to swallow; to take | |
| 哲学 哲學 | philosophy | |
| 重建 重建 | to rebuild; to reestablish; reconstruction; rebuilding | |
| 净 淨 | clean; completely; only; net (income, exports etc); (Chinese opera) painted face male role | |
| 添 添 | to add; to increase; to replenish | |
| 误 誤 | mistake; error; to miss; to harm; to delay; to neglect; mistakenly | |
| 新人 新人 | newcomer; fresh talent; newlywed, esp. new bride; bride and groom; (paleoanthropology) Homo sapiens | |
| 指定 指定 | to appoint; to assign; to indicate clearly and with certainty; designated | |
| 吊 吊 | to suspend; to hang up; to hang a person | |
| 磨 磨 | to rub; to grind; to polish; to sharpen; to wear down; to die out; to waste time; to pester; to insist | |
| 仓库 倉庫 | depot; storehouse; warehouse | |
| 捐 捐 | to relinquish; to abandon; to contribute; to donate; (bound form) tax; levy | |
| 名义 名義 | name; titular; nominal; in name; ostensible purpose | |
| 推出 推出 | to push out; to release; to launch; to publish; to recommend | |
| 战场 戰場 | battlefield | |
| 铺 鋪 | to spread; to display; to set up; (old) holder for door-knocker | |
| 咋 咋 | dialectal equivalent of 怎么 | |
| 成分 成分 | composition; ingredient; element; component; one's social status | |
| 摩托车 摩托車 | (loanword) motorbike; motorcycle | |
| 路过 路過 | to pass by or through | |
| 捡 撿 | to pick up; to collect; to gather | |
| 支援 支援 | to provide assistance; to support; to back | |
| 救命 救命 | to save sb's life; (interj.) Help!; Save me! | |
| 机关 機關 | mechanism; gear; machine-operated; office; agency; organ; organization; establishment; institution; body; stratagem; scheme; intrigue; plot; trick | |
| 刮 刮 | to scrape; to blow; to shave; to plunder; to extort | |
| 蹲 蹲 | to crouch; to squat; to stay (somewhere) | |
| 钻 鑽 | an auger; diamond |