After a brave start in the 1980s, Huang Jianxin, another Chinese director, became known for cautious parodies touching mainly local chords and was widely thought of outside China as a spent force.
However, in Oriental Morning Post, Zhang Jianxin, international relations professor at Shanghai's Fudan University, predicts the demise of the "radical anti-American" left in Latin America and as moderates representing the middle class come to the fore.