For over 2000 years, the province of Shaanxi has been the nursery of Chinese civilisation. Home to the Terracotta Warriors, and the starting point of the ancient Silk Road. As China accelerates towards the future, modern Shaanxi is embracing its roots as the gateway between the Eastern world and the West, and its re-discovering its place as the world-class destination in the 21st Century. I'm Ryan Pyle, and I've been working in this country as a writer and a photographer for twelve years, join me in this two-part journey through the beautiful melting pot of Shaanxi, "China's Great Gateway".

For over 2000 years, the province of Shaanxi has been the nursery of Chinese civilisation. Home to the Terracotta Warriors, and the starting point of the ancient Silk Road. As China accelerates towards the future, modern Shaanxi is embracing its roots as the gateway between the Eastern world and the West, and its re-discovering its place as the world-class destination in the 21st Century. I'm Ryan Pyle, and I've been working in this country as a writer and a photographer for twelve years, join me in this two-part journey through the beautiful melting pot of Shaanxi, "China's Great Gateway".

Ruby is a thirty and flirty (but definitely not thriving) New Yorker whose life is transferred to the Hamptons right after a chance meeting with a wealthy consignment store owner.

Play by Howard Barker about a sculptor who works to finish off a memorial to the Royalist years, as Cromwell's men break down the surrounding cathedral walls. (from http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/315346) 　　download: http://britbitsandclips.com/AR_TV.htm 　　script: http://britbitsandclips.com/PityinHistory.htm

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Big Bird and his Sesame Street companion, Barkley, the big, fluffy dog, travel across China in search of the legendary Feng Huang, the Phoenix Bird. Along the way they visit with Chinese schoolchildren, watch a Tai Ji demonstration, learn some Chinese words and songs, and meet the mischievous Monkey King.

Nop is a small time thief who gets a job from the local Chinese mafia in Bangkok. He and another guy have to pick up some girls from a small fishing port nearby who have been smuggled in from China to work in a Karaoke bar and deliver them to Bangkok. On the way back into town they are stopped at a police check point and the cops soon realize the people in the van are all illegal immigrants. He runs away with a girl who speaks some Thai named Liew who is coming to Thailand to pay back her family's debts. A chase leads to them nearly being captured and Nop is shot but they manage to escape and hide out in Pattaya for a few days. They have a relationship but Nop must hand over the girl to the mob no matter what. She does not want to work in the bar but is forced to. Nop does not agree...

Explosive bursts of fire open Technology/Transformation, an incendiary deconstruction of the ideology embedded in television form and pop cultural iconography. Appropriating imagery from the 1970s TV series Wonder Woman, Birnbaum isolates and repeats the moment of the "real" woman's symbolic transformation into super-hero. Entrapped in her magical metamorphosis by Birnbaum's stuttering edits, Wonder Woman spins dizzily like a music-box doll. Through radical manipulation of this female Pop icon, she subverts its meaning within the television text. Arresting the flow of images through fragmentation and repetition, Birnbaum condenses the comic-book narrative — Wonder Woman deflects bullets off her bracelets, "cuts" her throat in a hall of mirrors — distilling its essence to allow the subtext to emerge. In a further textual deconstruction, she spells out the words to the song Wonder Woman in Discoland on the screen. The lyrics' double entendres ("Get us out from under... Wonder Woman") reveal the sexual source of the superwoman's supposed empowerment: "Shake thy Wonder Maker." Writing about the "stutter-step progression of 'extended moments' of transformation from Wonder Woman," Birnbaum states, "The abbreviated narrative — running, spinning, saving a man — allows the underlying theme to surface: psychological transformation versus television product. Real becomes Wonder in order to "do good" (be moral) in an (a) or (im)moral society."

Oscar Diggs, a small-time circus illusionist and con-artist, is whisked from Kansas to the Land of Oz where the inhabitants assume he's the great wizard of prophecy, there to save Oz from the clutches of evil.