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China Movies

Eat a Bowl of Tea
Farewell My Concubine
Great Wall
Iron and Silk
Joy Luck Club
Sand Pebbles
Shanghai Express
Shanghai Lady
Shanghai Noon
Tai Pan
The Last Emperor
White Countess

Law Movies

LAW

Inherit The Wind

12 Angry Men

Erin Brockovitch

Enron

Disclosure

Life and Debt

McLibel

The Corporation

North Country

The Firm

The Insider

Paper Chase

Working Girl

Marketing Movies

MARKETING

Rainmaker

Thank You For Not Smoking

The Constant Gardner

Wal Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

McLibel

Jerry Maguire (sports marketing)

Ted Koppel documentary on China-US trade

Thank You For Smoking

Motivational Movies

MOTIVATIONAL
Blackboard Jungle
Coach Carter
Great Debaters
Gridiron Gang
Lean on Me
To Sir With Love



TEACH WITH MOVIES

Teach With Movies

China uses movies to teach English. Well, almost. Universities throughout China use movie clips shown in the classroom during class time. The short clips are repeated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the students have memorized certain chunks of language. Yes, movie clips are used for language learning cum memorization. Students routinely [...]

'10 English Movies

FREE CHOICE ENGLISH MOVIE LIBRARY
http://engedu.sysu.org.cn/graduate/holistics/index.html

To facilitate autonomous learning strategies, the Sun Yat-sen University department of post-graduate English teaching for non-English majors has created an English movie library. All of the movies are English language with English or no subtitles. (There are absolutely no Chinese subtitles because they hinder English acquisition.)
The [...]

TAI PAN

TAI PAN

Watch the movie in the Free Choice English Movie Library.

This is the story of how the British illegally and through military might forced the peaceful and friendly Chinese to cede control of Hong Kong for 100 years.

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As I watched this movie I was struck by the similarities between the way the British treated the [...]

IRON AND SILK

Watch the movie Iron and Silk on the SYSU intranet.

China is always changing but China never changes.

Front Stage culture changes rapidly.  Back Stage cultures changes at a snail’s pace.

Identify the changes in TEFL since Mark Salzman taught in China and identify those things that have not changed.

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