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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unable; incapable Xiehouyu HSK 4
nán tóng gay guy (coll.) Colloquialism ∼HSK 4
shuài (bound form) commander-in-chief; (bound form) to lead; to command; handsome; graceful; dashing; elegant; (coll.) cool!; sweet!; (Chinese chess) general (on the red side, equivalent to a king in Western chess) Colloquialism HSK 4
liǎ two (colloquial equivalent of 两个); both; some Colloquialism HSK 4
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
yuán Summer Palace in Beijing Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Li (surname) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Cannes (France) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Cháo xiǎn Korean language Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
German (language) Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
wén French language Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Dōng East Germany (1945-1990); German Democratic Republic Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
lín Qiáng Berlin Wall Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Bái Bailu or White Dew, 15th of the 24 solar terms 二十四節氣|二十四节气 8th-22nd September Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Huá shā Warsaw, capital of Poland Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
Běi dài Beidaihe district of Qinhuangdao city, Hebei Proper Noun ∼HSK 4
méi xiǎng dào didn't expect HSK 4
mèng zhōng in a dream ∼HSK 4
nìng calm, peaceful, serene; healthy ∼HSK 4
怀 huái yǒu to have in one's person (feelings, talent etc) ∼HSK 4
tǎng xià to lie down ∼HSK 4
湿 shī tòu drenched; wet through ∼HSK 4
elegant, graceful, delicate ∼HSK 4
shā kind of sedge grass, used anciently for raincoats ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo huì how could it ∼HSK 4
Guō outer part (of a city); surname ∼HSK 4
zǒng head office; general office; central office ∼HSK 4
xià to transmit to lower levels; to issue (a command, decree etc) ∼HSK 4
jīn restrict, prohibit, forbid ∼HSK 4
lìng yǒu to have some other (reason etc) ∼HSK 4
to fall short of; not as good as; too late ∼HSK 4
méi bàn there is nothing to be done; one can't do anything about it ∼HSK 4
Xiè thank ∼HSK 4
elegant, graceful, refined ∼HSK 4
kuài disagreeable; unpleasant ∼HSK 4
suí zhī thereupon; subsequently; accordingly ∼HSK 4
xīn bottom of one's heart ∼HSK 4
xīn xué psychology ∼HSK 4
yóu shì especially; most of all; above all; in particular ∼HSK 4
yǒng yǒng yuǎn yuǎn for ever and ever ∼HSK 4
zhòu to curse ∼HSK 4
Sòng Song dynasty; surname ∼HSK 4
wèi to console oneself; to masturbate; onanism; masturbation ∼HSK 4
zhèn zi at that time; then ∼HSK 4
qiǎn shuǐ shallow water ∼HSK 4
tuán jié jiù shì liang unity is strength (revolutionary slogan and popular song of 1943) ∼HSK 4
zěn yāo néng how could one ∼HSK 4
fān kāi to open up ∼HSK 4
shén me rén what kind of person ∼HSK 4
zuó last night ∼HSK 4