“Sorrows of the Forbidden City”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

This film is a historical drama set in the imperial court in the closing years of the Qing dynasty (late 19th and early 20th century). The Empress Dowager Cixi wielded effective power during much of this period, having staged a coup in 1861 that made her regent over the infant Emperor X and then, after his death, the young Emperor Guangxu. Cixi went into retirement in 1889 and the Emperor Guangxu ruled in his own right for the first time. He instituted the famous Hundred Days' Reform, aimed at strengthening and modernizing China. However, Cixi opposed the changes, so she staged a second coup, putting Guangxu under house arrest for the remainder of his life. This film plays on what has become the common understanding of events, according to which Cixi was extremely reactionary and concerned with maintaining her own power, even at the expense of China. However, this narrative has been questioned by some historians.

The protagonists of the film are the Emperor Guangxu (who is presented as benevolent and wise, but constrained by the filial piety he owes the Empress Dowager) and Imperial Concubine Zhen (who bravely encourages him to resist the Empress Dowager).

In the first scene, Guangxu (Shu Shi) is invited to choose his wife from among the ladies at court. However, when he tries to choose the woman he loves, Cixi (Tang Ruojing) browbeats him into choosing someone else. The woman he loves is relegated to being a concubine, Imperial Concubine Zhen (Zhou Yun).

This is the year when the Boxers, in the name of defending the Qing dynasty, murdered large numbers of foreigners and Chinese Christians and besieged the Foreign Legation Quarter in Beijing.

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Sorrows of the Forbidden City was released on DVD by Guangzhou Beauty Culture Communication Co., Ltd., in 2006.

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1. ^{{cite book |author=Jared Mitchell |title=Becky Chan: A Novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ye6j7nnrTJoC&pg=PA88 |year=2001 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-0-88924-300-2 |pages=88– |quote=The picture was Sorrows of the Forbidden City, made by the grandly named Yung Hwa Motion Picture Industries. Sorrows was what they called a "super-production." Budgeted at one million Hong Kong dollars, it was the story of Emperor ...}}
2. ^{{cite book |author=Lisa Odham Stokes |title=Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eUlAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA396 |date=5 February 2007 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6458-0 |pages=396– |quote=Director Zhu Shilin's masterpiece Sorrows of the Forbidden City/Ching gung bei shut/Qinggong mishi is perhaps his most well-known work. It was Yonghua's second production. Adapted from ...}}
3. ^{{cite book |author1=Esther M. K. Cheung |author2=Gina Marchetti |author3=Esther C. M. Yau |title=A Companion to Hong Kong Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqraCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA532 |date=8 June 2015 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-88354-9 |pages=532– |quote=... Life took on a dramatic twist as the Cultural Revolution kicked off in the mainland. Yao Wenyuan's ferocious article attacking Zhu's 1948 classic Sorrows of the Forbidden City ...}}
4. ^{{cite book |author=Paul J. Bailey |title=Women and Gender in Twentieth-Century China |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svYcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA121 |date=29 August 2012 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-02968-3 |pages=121– |quote=In 1954 Mao Zedong had condemned as 'reactionary' the 1948 film Sorrows of the Forbidden City (Qing'gong mishi), an intimate portrayal of life in the Qing imperial court in the 1890s that focused on the attempts by the loyal concubine Zhen ...}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.hkfaa.com/news/100films.html |title=The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures |publisher=Hong Kong Film Award |language=Chinese |accessdate=2 October 2013}}

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