Overview of articles
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Longing for the Rain
In today’s China, the middle classes provide a supreme example of materialism, emptiness and yearning. The nouveau riche seem seem united only in their unstoppable…Published on: -
A Brighter Summer Day
Edward Yang’s epic and stylistically impressive A Brighter Summer Day from 1991 is set in Taipei in the early 1960s. Yang’s masterpiece has hundreds of…Published on: -
Night and Fog in Zona
After the South Korean film critic Jung Sung-il saw Wang Bing’s monumental, nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks at IFFR 2003, he…Published on: -
Flowers of Taipei – Taiwan New Cinema
It is more than 30 years ago that the Taiwan New Cinema movement emerged and flourished, closely related to the changing political climate in Taiwan.…Published on: -
Hello, Mr. Tree!
Rapid urbanisation in China, seen through slightly absurdist spectacles. A mining company takes over a dusty village in the Chinese hinterland and the inhabitants are…Published on: