Summer Palace

Summer Palace 2006

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Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.

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3.87 Beginner Director Lou Ye 🍅 72%

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Vocabulary

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(onom.) sound of singing, cheering etc; (phonetic); (dialect) to chat HSK 6
(of time or place) in; at; on; (indicating any indirect relation) to; toward; vis-à-vis; with regard to; for; (indicating a source) from; out of; (used in comparison) than; (used in the passive voice) by HSK 6
and; to give; together with HSK 6
dài (idiom) impatient; eager to (do sth); unable to wait any longer Idiom ∼HSK 5
cùn nán xíng unable to move a single step (idiom); to be in an (extremely) difficult situation Idiom ∼HSK 5
shén jīng nerve; mental state; (coll.) unhinged; nutjob Colloquialism HSK 5
hóng rainbow ∼HSK 5
wěi great, robust; extraordinary ∼HSK 5
reddish color, red, brown ∼HSK 5
xiǎo dawn, daybreak; clear, explicit ∼HSK 5
Lóu surname; a constellation; to wear ∼HSK 5
bright, glorious, splendid, flame ∼HSK 5
wěi brilliant red; glowing ∼HSK 5
jiān reed, phragmites communis ∼HSK 5
jiā bulrush, reed; flute, whistle ∼HSK 5
me interrogative particle (variant of 嘛) ∼HSK 5
pat, console, comfort; pacify ∼HSK 5
go upstream, go against current; formerly ∼HSK 5
zēng hèn to detest; hatred ∼HSK 5
maid, servant girl; cute girl ∼HSK 5
chū pǐn to produce an item; output; items that are produced ∼HSK 5
Hǎo surname; place in modern Shanxi ∼HSK 5
lěi buds, unopened flowers ∼HSK 5
wéi to get past the qualifying round; to make it to the finals ∼HSK 5
kǎo bèi copy; to copy (loanword) ∼HSK 5
liàn to fall head over heels in love; to be passionately in love ∼HSK 5
jiǎn to edit (raw footage: film, video, audio etc); edited version ∼HSK 5
raid, attack; inherit ∼HSK 5
cuò place; collect, arrange; employ ∼HSK 5
tōu xiào to laugh up one's sleeve ∼HSK 5
qīn shí to erode; to corrode ∼HSK 5
shòu to be obstructed; to be hindered ∼HSK 5
huí a back-water; an eddy a whirlpool ∼HSK 5
impede, hinder, obstruct; oppose ∼HSK 5
Wǎn seem, as if, crooked ∼HSK 5
gāo lóu shà tall building ∼HSK 5
tāo large waves ∼HSK 5
shǎ feeble-minded; dim-witted ∼HSK 5
xià huài to be terrified; to terrify sb ∼HSK 5
cuò zōng intricate; complicated; tangled; involved; to synthesize ∼HSK 5
píng duckweed; wandering, traveling ∼HSK 5
hào jìn to exhaust; to use up; to deplete; to drain ∼HSK 5
xiǎng yòng to enjoy (i.e. have the use or benefit of) ∼HSK 5
do not (literary) ∼HSK 5
cào (substitute for) fuck; WTF ∼HSK 5
yōng embrace, hug, squeeze; crowd ∼HSK 5
bēi sorrow, grief; sorry, sad ∼HSK 5
xiàn caught in (a bad situation); to fall into (trap etc) ∼HSK 5
I (used by rulers); alone ∼HSK 5
chōng chì to be full of; to flood; to congest ∼HSK 5