Study Chinese film history at the Beijing Film Academy in an excellent, one-month long intensive summer program organized by the University of Washington: http://faculty.washington.edu/yomi/bfa/index.html

The tentative curriculum for Summer 2007 includes:
• Chinese Cinema and the Nation (Chris Berry, University of London)
• The fifth-generation experience (Tian Zhuangzhuang, Beijing Film Academy)
• Independent Chinese cinema (Zhang Xianmin, Beijing Film Academy)
• The representation of women in Chinese film (Yang Yuanying, Beijing Film Academy)
• The Development of Chinese Film Theory (Zhong Dafeng, Beijing Film Academy)
• Photographic innovation in Chinese cinema (TBA, Beijing Film Academy)
• Cinematic Realisms (James Tweedie, University of Washington)
• Globalism and Contemporary Cinema (James Tweedie, University of Washington)
• Beijing in Film and Media (Yomi Braester, University of Washington)