Reviews Han Zhang On Jia Zhangke Still from Caught by the Tides . Jia Zhangke (director). Caught by the Tides . 2024. The earliest trips I remember taking were to my maternal grandparents’ house. It was the mid-’90s; I couldn’t have been more than 3 or 4 years old. My parents and I lived in an apartment in Nanjing, the provincial capital. Grandpa and Grandma lived in a small town north of where the Yangtze River meets the Pacific Ocean. They had a yard that wrapped around their one-story house. Using their bathroom was stressful — it was located behind the main house, and to get there I had to pass a chicken coop. I found the feathered and beaked things, which roamed around anxiously, a little menacing. There was a lanky tree in front of the house where the family cat often took refuge to escape my zealous efforts to capture it. During the New Year holiday, neighbors and relatives crowded around a large table for a feast lubricated by liquor and laughter.…