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COVER STORY
Freedom: To Date BY LILLIAN AU ANDEFFIEPOW
CAN,4DA’S
ENGINEERS:
executive,s: 99% male managers: 98%male staff 97%male profs: 518% male students: 86%male
UBC: 3 women : 20 men
BY BIANCAZEE EN still dominate the woriti of engineering, a .federal report revealed. The report slnowed women form only 14 percent of Canada’s engineering students. MoreThan JustNumbers, prompted by thle massacre of 14 women at &ole Polytechnique in December 198’9. revealed the percentage of women engineers diminish drastically with each step up the corporate ladder. The joint federal and corporate study by the Caniadian Committee on WomenandE:ngineeringreports women form only three per cent of Canada’s 121.464 engineers. Danan Li Vancouver one of is of 3,875 women engineers in Canada. In her field, only one per of the cent said. executivesarewomen, thereport Li, 27,a civil engineer, said she in Ontario was given a few hints when she embarked on her engineering career. “A male co1:leagueonce advised that you have to swear to survive in this field,” said Li who now works for a Cloverdale m f . “I do not knclw any other woman engineers except the ones I studied with,” said Li. “FLight now all my coworkers are male except myself, the receptionist and the secretary.” 2,400 schooled UBC engineering students last year. Twenty in 23 studentsweremen. Continued on page 13.
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AT Pratibha, 26, refuses to many against her choice. Pratibha has rejectedtwo marriagesto men in their late thirties arranged byher f a m i l y 4 n e a doctor f o Africa selectedby word rm of mouth. rae up “I was t e t dlike a chattel for the highest bidder,” she said. “They didn’t about care my feelings.” “I have the option to say no, but I face tremendous disapproval if I do.My family constantlyreminded methatImissedagoodman. Everyday my father wouldcall me an old spinster,” she said. Her family, she said, considers her a “disgrace and an en~barassment.” “Because I’m still not married...my family has a difficult time finding suitable candidates for my younger sses”shesaid.“Being itr, single has cast doubt my family on name.” Pratibha’s first date didn’t 25, come until she was after she left home against her parents’ wishes. “When I was at home, I wasn’t even allowed to talk to boys.” she said. “Mydad would just have a fit if :[ spoke to a guy.” Said Pratibha: “I never
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FILM FESTIVAL
Maggie’s in town
Ifelt left outnot knowing who the actress was.
She was more popular than the late Marlene Dietrich and Meryl Streep. Millions of people knew her. “It’sa veryold story,” saidPow reporter Ha0 Li. “Everybodyknows who she is.” I had studied the French New Wave,Italian Realism, British Social Realism ..film history for two years at UBC ...even Japanese cinema. I had seen the 1928 classic Blue Angel. But not once had we ventured into China.- C.W . Ifelt closer to my grandmother, who also died at a young age. She too was a Shanghainese actress in the 30s.-B.Z.
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Hong Kong superstar Maggie Cheung portrays Ruan Lin Yu, China’s most famous actress, who committed suicide in 1935. Cheung said she sees herself in Ruan.
EGA-STAR Maggie Cheung, one Hong of one bigger than before.” Kong’smost versatile scene for Ruan’s New Woman. actresses,investigatesthelife of “Not good enough,”saysthe Ruan Lin Yu, a Shanghainese actress, who committed suicide in film’sdirector.“Iwantvolcanic eruptions, one bigger than before. 1935, in The Actress. Her death ended a brilliant I’m going to put subtitles on your 25 face with each word getting bigger.” nine-year film career. She made LikeDietrich,Ruan resisted silent films, dying shortly before 25. social normsofhertime.Inthe sound cameto China. She was There were a lot pressures for prostitute (1934). she seductively women then and being an actress twirls acigarettedefying alecherous be mand awaitinga favour. wasoneoftheonlywaysto Kwan boldly In Actress, The independent. combinesdocumentary footage, A year after playing at his actual B&W Ruan footage, and Chinatown’s Golden Harvest own colourreconstructionofRuan’s Theatre, now closed,director Stanley Kwan’s purtrayal of Ruan life. During production, Kwan‘s all inTheActressrecentlydrewamedia audience larger than any other starcast,includingTonyLeung,Shin Hong. and Carin Lau, debate how Vancouver film festival feature. they will recreate Ruan’s silent film Ironically in 1935, it wasthe footage in colour.Theyproduce presswhodestroyedRuan.The coloursilentfilmwhich is then media harboured a vendetta against Ruan who in her last film, New comparedwithRuan’sactual The Woman (1939, insinuated China’s footage in blackandwhite.The secret is to mimic Ruan’s malleable brass was aligned with Japan. to Ruan face without allowing the colour Caught in a love triangle, distract the viewer. washounded by thepresswho Kwan expertlyjuxtaposes dubbed her an adulteress after her impoverished ex-husband filed an footage from Ruan’s original films to that of his cast’s imitations. The infidelity suit. a Cheung is living almostsimilar result is a magnificent blend in which the nightmare with Hong Kong’s tabloidviewer is immersed in Ruan’s world and haunted by her characters press.Shesp1itupwithherboyfriend justbefore making The Actress. emotional and historical ghosts. But she says, “I won’t commit suicide.” The film is not afraid to layer With dignity and passion, Chinese history against emotional thus taboo Cheung as Ruan, confesses her dynamics, leaving as emotions using Method acting Chinese history implicit suchthe Nanjing massacre where at least a techniques. “I wanttolive, I want to quarter million citizenswere retaliate,” Cheung chants ain death executed,manyrapedandbeheaded.
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young people to t y And they r. always make sure no mistakes OR 38-year-old Du Yan Li, are made, so nobody would get in trouble,” Li said. working in Radio Shack’s positionaftertenyearsofhard For China’s young filmA warehouse only is to aboutMainlandChina program affected. “The most unfair thing is that makers, the big studios are not work. survive... temporarily. for Canadians. A Taiwanese company theirhaven.ZhangYiMo,is Li wascinematographer two a After 13 years with the thepartystillwantsustomake and money with these rules doesn’t China’smostprominent invited him to shoot a movie in Beijing Film Studio, he is quite fifth years ago in China’s Beijing Film provide enough money. It is like generation film-maker. studio. decided he and Canada to stay disappointedwithChina’sfilm He joined the army at 15 t because of the political situation o a After graduatingt the topof industry. Many films were pre- demanding eggs from chickens his BeijingCollegecinematoavoid a countrysidere-educationbackhome.Workas a camera ordered government propaganda without feeding them.” Li said. The old generation of graphy class in the early 1980s pmgrarn for highschool graduates. operator is hard to find, he said. tools. 1950s was offered a job at the Bejing filmmakers,who endured the was “I chosen as a “The t r e Chinese he stations any “You don’t have choices. photographer by the armybecause are all controlled by people from You have t go through a lot of and 70s politicalhardships, also Fim Studio. o affect China’s film industry. They of my city background. is how Hong Kong orTaiwan,they always government and self-censorship,” This However, heavy censorship now control some major studios promted Zhang and other young film I started my career,”Lisaid.tellmetheydon’thaveanything Li said. filmmakersto move to Guang Xi L quit the armyin 1976 and for me,” Li said. i Major film studios, such as and their conservative ways restrict became a photetechnician. He Liham’tgivenupandistrying Beijing,ChangChunandShanghai thecreativityofyoungerfilmmakers. “They wouldn’t allowthe Continued on page 10 TV Film Studios, are particularly was promoted to a camera crew to sell his idea to Roger’s cable
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“Every time they havejoint venture it like a is they were injected with amphetamines’’