- An autobiography about the director's life, career and ultimate disillusionment with The People's Republic of China.
- This film illustrates the life of the film director, Shui-Bo Wang in The People's Republic of China. We learn of the life of the director in his own words and images from a child steeped in the values of Chinese communism exemplified by Chairman Mao, to a young man striving to live up to those ideals both as an artist and a soldier. We also learn of his disillusionment with Chinese society and those same ideals, culminating in the horror of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.—Kenneth Chisholm <kchishol@execulink.com>
- Born in 1960, artist Shui-Bo Wang grew up during the height of the Communist era in China. He and his family were faithful to Chairman Mao and the Communist Party. During his early artistic years, Wang used his art to further the ideals of the Communist Party by having them as the graphic centerpieces in party propaganda posters. During his growing up period into adulthood, everything that he had heard or seen about western society - primarily through the eyes of that propaganda machine - strengthened his resolve of the Communist Party's greatness in doing what was best for the country, and the problems of capitalist societies in not supporting the poor and downtrodden. He had little sympathy for anyone killed due to their pro-capitalist stance. His loyalty to the party even remained when he and other members of his family were accused of being anti-Communist. The opening of China's borders in the 1980s led to many young Chinese being exposed to and enjoying the trappings of western society, although Wang, beyond the enjoyment of Renaissance art, was hanging on to his Communist ideals. Being exposed to widespread poverty in China, seeing that China was economically behind western democracies, and the Communist Party imposing martial law in early 1989 and the aftermath of the massacres in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 would change his political ideals forever, and show him that no political ideology is perfect.—Huggo
- Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square is a visual autobiography of an artist who grew up in China during the historic upheavals of the '60s, '70s and '80s. Through a rich collage of original artwork and family and archival photographs, Shui-Bo Wang offers a personal perspective on the turbulent Cultural Revolution and the years that followed.—Anonymous
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