  : lan yu is also the chinese name for orchid island.  lan yu () is a gay-themed hong kong-chinese film, set in beijing in china, by hong kong director stanley kwan in 2001, and features full-frontal male nudity.testing china's censors with a gay love story. author: steve friess. publisher: the new york times. published: 12 january 2002. retrieved: 18 april 2014. ==background== the movie is based on a novel published anonymously on the internet in 1998. the filming itself took place in beijing, without government permission. the movie, which was directed by stanley kwan, tells a romantic and tragic love story of two men. it is based on the chinese novel åäº¬æäº  ('âbÄijÄ«ng gÃ¹shÃ¬'â, [a] beijing story) by an author identified only as a åäº¬åå¿ ('âbÄijÄ«ng tÃ³ngzhÃ¬'â, [a] beijing comrade), with "tongzhi" having blatantly homosexual overtones. since this work contained positive depictions of gay men, explicit (by chinese standards) gay sex scenes, and resurrected the ghost of tiananmen square, at the time, no mainland chinese publisher would have dared to publish it, nor would the author be safe from government reprisals. hence, its anonymous publication on the internet. the story is set in beijing in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and makes vivid reference to the tiananmen square massacre. the film can be counted as a mainland-made movie as most of the crew are from mainland china. lan yu received a brief mainland chinese run during the film association of beijing university-sponsored 'âchina's first gay film festival'â at beijing university in december 2001. although publicity for this film festival was mai
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