Notes from Beijing

Short documentary for Oriental Time and Space, about the massacre done by Japanese army in Yechang Village on May 7th, 1954.

Experimental short on various objects, made in 1994.

Reenactment documentary made for Oriental Time and Space (东方时空). The story concerns the discovery of a photo album containing 16 photographs which documenti the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during its 1937 occupation of Nanjing. This photo album later became a significant piece of evidence used during the trial of Hisao Tani, one of the primary perpetrators of the Nanjing Massacre.

A documentary produced to disseminate historical truth about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre to international audiences. It records the Shorinji Kempo Organization of Japan’s 40th-anniversary visit to China, but rather than serving as a simple travelogue, it uses the 299 participants’ journey—beginning in Nanjing—as a confrontation with the facts of Japan’s wartime aggression and the choices demanded in the present. Through Chinese filmmakers’ perspectives, testimony, archival images, and narration addressing the Nanjing Massacre, nuclear war, militarization, and historical responsibility, the film asks viewers to reject indifference, self-justification, and the concealment of inconvenient history. It argues that peace cannot remain an abstract ideal or be left to governments and power-seekers; each person must begin from the shared human right to survival, face history honestly, and choose concrete action toward mutual understanding and peace.

Documentary series on the students of reform schools in Beijing. Originally edited into a six-episode TV series and later a 90-minute feature film version was made.

Documentary on the life of Chinese poet and scholar Wen Yiduo with reenactment sequences on his last few days. Shot but not fully finished or aired in 1996, a different 33-minute re-edit version was aired later in 2001.

Documentary on reform directed by Wang Zijun and Chen Jue

Documentary with reenactment sequences aired on Beijing Television program Documentary in 2001. The personal story and confession from the Japanese lady Hanako Kodama (児玉華子), who once served as the personal secretary for Daisaku Komoto during the Sino-Japanese war.

Documentary report on Gao Yizheng, a female in her 40s, working to support her family.

Documentary film completed in 1994, shot over two weeks, about one of the main production areas of jujube fruits in China, Lujiazhuang village on Taihang Mountains. The original version of the film is 55 minutes long; later, a shorter, 30-minute version was released. The credits on the original film list Wang Zijun, Wang Haiping, and Yang Yang as co-directors.

A documentary report on Hu Jieqing, Lao She's wife.

Two-part TV report aired on the "Home of Elderly People" (老年之家) program on Beijing Television, about old people who still practice martial arts and their lives.