The Asian American International Film Festival (here’s our post) concludes this weekend with a number of films, but Film Forum picks up the slack for your Chinese documentary fix. Also this week:...
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Between 1995 and 2007, the percentage of urban households in China who owned refrigerators rose from 7% to 95%. Without this increase, the Sanquan (三全) frozen dumpling factory in Zhengzhou probably...
“The whole country is moving at warp speed…in a sense, it makes no structural sense that a country that is so large can actually make as many large pivots as it...
Before we get into what’s coming up, there’s one event that I just learned about that’s happening tonight, Thursday, July 24. I believe it’s the first medicine/health-related event we’ve posted. Another Life –...
As you know, Beyond Chinatown does a weekly listing of current exhibitions and maintains an exhibition calendar. However helpful, they don’t tell much about what the show is about. To help you learn more...
Asian CineVision closes out July and welcomes August with the 37th Asian American Film Festival (“AAIFF”), the country’s longest running festival dedicated to showcasing talented Asian and Asian American filmmakers and independent films....
For those of you like me who don’t know German or familiar with the study of aesthetics, Gesamtkunstwerk is a work of art that incorporates many art forms. A fitting name...
One thing that strikes me about the weekly events is that they are always very eclectic. This week: video art from Hong Kong with a Chinese rock soundtrack, Taiwan-born artist Shyu Ruey-shiann...
Shen Wei Dance Arts will perform at the Prospect Park Bandshell as part of Celebrate Brooklyn! tomorrow, July 17 at 8 PM. The program will feature two of their repertory...
The Green Turtle was a comic book superhero created by Hawaiian-born Chinese American artist Chu Fook Hing. During the Green Turtle’s short five-issue run in Blazing Comics in 1944, he fought in China during World...