It’s a sure sign of summer the New York Asian Film Festival is underway. Through July 13 at Film Society Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater and from July 14 –...
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This week: The Asian American International Film Festival reveals its line-up; an Ang Lee movie is screened outdoors; documentary films from Hong Kong’s Chinese Documentary Festival; a film about three...
This week: Composer Hung-Ping Chang presents two performances, one at a casual venue and the other that partners with Whale and Dolphin Conservation to promote conservation; a block party celebrating the...
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In the opening of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s 410[Gone], Twenty-One (Carolina Do), a college-aged Chinese American, has been desperately trying to contact her deceased brother, Seventeen (Roger Yeh), in the afterlife by instant...
This week: A film by Wayne Wang that takes place in NYC’s Chinatown shortly after the lifting of the Chinese Exclusion Act; documentaries about comfort women and another about factory...
Taiwan’s Golden Pin Design Award–the only international design award focused on the world’s Chinese-speaking, or huaren, communities–is calling for entries for its 2017 edition. The competition represents a chance for...
This week: a film about a former soldier born in Hebei who ended up in Taiwan during the Chinese Civil War; a virtuoso guitarist performs with an erhu player; a lecture...
In her previous exhibition at Klein Sun, Borrowing an Easterly Wind, artist Geng Xue (耿雪) used cobalt blue-colored wind lines on a large photograph of a forest and on the...
Things are a little quiet because of the Memorial Day holiday, but it’s fitting, in light of Taiwan becoming the first Asian country to allow same-sex marriages, that many of...
This week: Documentaries about a small family-run bank in Chinatown, the only institution prosecuted in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and the first licensed Chinese female pilot in the United...