1. 研究目的与意义（文献综述）

ang lee is a taiwanese-born film director, screenwriter and producer. he has not only won several high-profile awards such as the academy award for best director twice, the academy award for best foreign language film but also is the only director to win both the golden bear twice, and the golden lion twice. lee is the only non-caucasian director to have won an oscar, golden horse, golden globe, and bafta. he is devoted to discuss the chinese tradition and modern ethical conflicts, the eastern and western cultural conflicts. through the description of deconstruction and reconstruction of a family, he shows the great changes of a chinese family under western culture. especially in lee’s family trilogy, the wedding banquet, pushing hands, and eat drink man woman, he explored the filial culture and conflicts between tradition and modernity, the east and the west.

when lee was young, he inspired by the chinese culture. in adulthood, he effected by the western culture. because of the special education and growing environment, lee always feels deeper than others about the western and chinese cultures, and the modern and original cultures. it is he that stands on the cultural joint point, he can use the cosmopolitan view to make films. his tolerant attitude becomes the only way to solve the cultural dilemmas and conflicts. at the same time, the audience can keep a neutral angle to treat different cultures.

as chinese cultural foundation is deeply rooted in ang lee’s mind, he got many unique and new ideas when facing with western culture. and lee put these special thoughts in his movies, especially chinese-language movies. ang lee shows lots of chinese elements such as chinese kungfu, tai ji, chinese food, costume and building. more than that, chinese ideology and traditional culture are conveyed to audience, the most prominent is the chinese filial piety culture which is the root of confucianism, and confucianism is the central part of chinese culture, so filial culture is regarded as the core of chinese culture. pushing hands is lee’s first feature film. together with two following films, the wedding banquet (1993) and eat drink man woman (1994), it forms his family trilogy, which is also known as the “father knows best”, each of which deals with conflicts between an older and more traditional generation and their children as they confront a world of change.

2. 研究的基本内容与方案

The thesis will mainly focus on the analysis of the contradictions and conflicts about the filial piety culture in western and eastern culture through the family trilogy of Ann Lee. It will be discussed in the following parts: First will be the introduction. Then some information about the social background and history, what the three movies talk about will be analyzed with the filial culture. This brief introduction would help with a general acquaintance of the director as well as his life experience, which contributes much to the next reading. Third part is about the climax which covers the contradictions and conflicts which will be discussed in aspect of different situations in the movies. After that, this paper will show how Ang Lee deal with these problems under the different cultural backgrounds. In this part, each main character especially the father and children will be discussed separately. In the end, the conclusions will be made to reveal the connotation of the three movies.

3. 研究计划与安排

before 20th january : settlement of the title

before 20th march : submission of the outline

before 25th april : submission of the first draft

4. 参考文献（12篇以上）

[1] arp r, barkman a, mcrae j. the philosophy of ang lee[m]. the university

press of kentucky, 2013.

[2] baker hdr, basehart h. chinese family and kinship[m]. new york: