Overview of articles
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Sleepwalk
Magic realism in 1980s Lower East Side. Dreamy No Wave cinema in which a Chinese manuscript seeps into a translator’s life.Published on: -
My Father’s Choice
Her father fled Mao’s Cultural Revolution, going to Hong Kong. Not long after, he joined the great Chinese exodus to the West and started a…Published on: -
Knife in the Clear Water
In the remote hills of Ningxia, old Ma Zishan lives with his family, who are Islamic Hui Chinese. in line with custom, the family want…Published on: -
The Donor
An enormous social gap looms between two men who are the focus of this narrative, but what unites them is that they both urgently need…Published on: -
We the Workers
Between 2009 and 2015, Wen Hai followed the lives of workers and worker activists in southern China, the world’s factory. His occasionally astonPublished on: -
El futuro perfecto
Seventeen-year-old Xiaobin from China joins her parents in Argentina and tries to learn Spanish. Each new verb conjugation brings her further: frPublished on: -
Out There
Existing between Tokyo and Taipei, Ito Takehiro’s debut independent feature follows a young man whose multicultural upbringing finds him driftinPublished on: -
Tokyo Skin
Atmospheric portrait of a group of thirty-somethings who try to give their lives sense through semi-illicit activities. Début.Published on: -
Paradise Girls
Three women, three stories, three locations. Three initially carefree lives are each disrupted by a male figure – respectively a friend, a father andPublished on: -
The Making of “Farewell to My Concubine”
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