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Yang Jie, Director of China's "Journey to the West", dies aged 88
Yang Jie, director of the popular and critically acclaimed TV adaption of the Chinese literature classic Journey to the West, died of a heart attack in Beijing on Saturday. She was 88.
In an autobiography published in 2014, Yang wrote, “I once refused to watch Journey to the West for a decade, because it reminded me of too much disappointment and sadness, agony and anger.”
At the end of 1981, Chinese reformist leader Hu Yaobang, then general secretary of the Communist Party, green lighted state-run Chinese central television to dramatise Chinese literary classics, at a time when TV production had just started to pick up in China.
Yang, a radio host-turned-director of Chinese opera at CCTV at the time, took the job of adapting Journey to the West as a TV series. When a deputy director at CCTV told her she only needed to do better than the Japanese TV adaption of the novel, Yang replied, “Sir, your standard is too low,” according to a 2012 interview she gave Shaanxi-based newspaper China Business View.
The show’s started production in early 1982 and it took six years to finish shooting the first 25 episodes, five episodes short of the initial plan due to budget restraints and numerous production hurdles.
Staging stunts proved the most difficult issue, as the technology was barely known in China in the 1980s. Instead of hanging actors from wires to film simple fighting scenes, Yang had to hire young athletes from local sport schools to jump on a trampoline while cinematographers filmed high angle shots, according to a report from Xinhua News Agency in 2012.
As the show’s director and producer, Yang’s determined embrace of real scenery as background for the production also engulfed herself in controversy over her “extravagance,” which led the central government to organise an investigation team to follow her crew. The team later found the claim unsubstantiated and even added 1 million yuan to her production fees, the Xinhua report said.
“Because of her [stubborn] character, she has offended many leaders and experts,” Yang's husband Wang Chongqiu, the cinematographer of the show's first 25 episodes, told Chinese magazine New Weekly in 2006.
CCTV later stopped funding the production because it found it too costly, at 3 million yuan for 15 episodes. Although Yang managed to raise 3 million yuan on her own, increased inflation at the time forced her to cut five planned episodes, which she described as a great pity.
In 2000, the show’s sequel, or more precisely its completion, was picked up by CCTV for an investment of 13 million yuan, according to Yang’s autobiography. However, the new episodes weren’t as well received as the first 25.
“It’s mainly because the stories don’t feel exciting anymore,” Yang told Xinhua in 2012. “They all look the same, not like the previous 25 episodes that have complete story lines. In the sequel, it’s always the monk being caught, the monkey looking for saviours, and the demons being beaten away.
Yang, who was born in Macheng, Hubei province, is survived by her husband.
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杨洁导演把女儿国拍成了大话西游。而李健这首歌就是“一生所爱”。这首歌由三首歌穿杂而成，分别是《女儿情》、《唐僧抒怀》、《你的眼睛》。西游记英文版：缩减版和完整版。
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