The approach looks very much like wedgelet approximations see theory and images at http://ibb.gsf.de/homepage/laurent.demaret/wedgelet/docu/wedgelet_short_guide/node1.html

China has no movies that has not been backed by US or Europe? Wow, what ignorance and hubris. Just because you have not heard of Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, and others does not mean that there is none. Millions of Chinese and chinese-descent people watch them.

And China has not always been communist. It was a republic 1911-1949. It was communist ruled from 1949. China film industry began around 1913.