Unexpected Gems From the New York Film Festival
From avant-garde documentaries to restored classics, the festival’s deepest cuts were among its finest.
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China
Huo Mong’s ‘Living the Land’ Revisits a 1990s Chinese Countryside
Award-winning farming nostalgia harvests minimal sentiment
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Tariffs Have Killed Hollywood’s Dreams of Dominating the China Market
But that business proposition was going off the rails regardless
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Memories of “Kafka In Taiwan”
A recently-closed exhibit in Taipei attests to the far-reaching influence of the Czech modernist more than a century after his death
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Yang Hengjun Receives a Death Sentence
Beijing’s imposition of the ultimate penalty for a detained writer is a massive blow to literary and intellectual freedom
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The Persecution of Yang Hengjun: Where’s the Global Outrage?
Imprisoned Australian-Chinese writer’s health has taken a severe turn for the worse, but not many in the literary community seem to care
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The First Rule of Fight Club is: You Don’t Change the Ending of ‘Fight Club’
Decriers of Chinese censorship don’t seem to care when the same thing happens in the United States
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Why are American Movies Underperforming at the Chinese Box Office?
Post-COVID shutdowns, Hollywood has lost its luster in Asia
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Jackie Chan is Still Alive, but Not Really Kicking
His latest, ‘Vanguard’, is all bomb, no fist
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Big Trouble in China
An interview with media executive Chris Fenton, author of ‘Feeding the Dragon’.
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