Piracy as a Window to the World – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo

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Piracy as a Window to the World – “Twenty fragments of a ravenous youth” – Xiaolu Guo

January 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Culture, Elitism, Intellectual Property, Policy

You could find anything you wanted here. CDs, with a hole punched into the middle by customs. VCDs and DVDs of old classics like The Goddess with Ruan Lingyu, Zhao Dan’s Crossroads, even the 1940s film Spring in a Small Town. And so many foreign films. Mamma Roma. Central Station. The Lost Weekend. Plus films by Takeshi Kitano and Shunji Iwai. All piled on top of each other like firecrackers at Chinese New Year. I loved piracy. It was our university and our only path to the foreign world.

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