生日快乐! to Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon director Ang Lee (李安) who celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday. We were really psyched that he was slated to direct a 3D...
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A few additional links have been added since the original publication. Facing a government-imposed Monday deadline to disperse, the protest movement in Hong Kong against Beijing’s version of democracy for the former British...
The South China Morning Post reports on China’s Ministry of Education’s (教育部)’s statement that a third of the country’s population (roughly 400 million people) does not speak putonghua: “Thirty per cent of...
“The films that we could see at the time were Cantonese opera films or comedies that no one laughed at. Many people ask me was Cantonese film facing its end?...
Germany defeated Argentina in the World Cup Final, and we are sure that many people placed bets on sites like FanDuel to get their predictions in, but South China Morning...