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Screening: The Seal of Love (CAFF 2011)
The 2011 Chinese American Film Festival presents a screening of The Seal of Love.
At the beginning of 1924, Yang Zhihua, a progressive youth, was admitted by Shanghai University, where Qu Qiubai, one of the earliet leaders of the Communist Party of China worked as a professor In the Sociology Department. Yang assumed the important work of students’ union during students’ patriotic movements and the love between her and Qu got matured in combats. The foreign concession authority ransacked Shanghai University and posted Qu as wanted. The Communist Party of China decided to transfer Qu underground and appointed Yang as his one-way contact. In 1935, Qu Qiubai was arrested. Qu refused all sorts of induction to capitulation, and died a heroic death singing the Internationale.
For a complete listing of Chinese films to be featured at the 2011 Chinese American Film Festival, please click here.
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