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...martial arts classic like Chang Cheh's The Heroic Ones or Chor Yuen's Killer Clans really look like? What did Hong Kong Nocturne and other Shaw musical extravaganzas sound like? What made audiences fall in love with such prime Shaw stars as Linda Lin Dai, David Chiang, Cheng Pei-pei and the dynamite Tina Ti? Could anyone today actually sit through the film version of a Huangmei opera like The Kingdom and the Beauty...
...couldn’t teach,” he says. In summer 2001, he taught English to children in China and lectured on English literature in the Philippines as a guest professor at the University of Manila. At Harvard, he worked as a TF for Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow’s core “Chinese Literature 130: Screening Modern China” in fall 2001. His popularity as a TF in Professor William Kirby’s “Historical Studies A-74: Contemporary China: The People’s Republic and Taiwan in the Modern...
...able to count on Jiang's support, portending political infighting that will distract the country's leaders from China's pressing social and economic challenges, which include rising unemployment and epidemic corruption. "Jiang has made a terrible mistake" by undermining Hu and hanging on to power, says Cheng Li, a professor and China expert at Hamilton College...
...have the toxic tinge that attaches to sexy and ultra-violent films elsewhere. In the U.S. and Europe, ?ultra? films are separate and lesser industries; for Hong Kong movie people, the line between mainstream and murky backwater is blurrier. Actors like Anthony Wong, Simon Yam, Danny Lee and Kent Cheng shuttled with impunity from one category to the other. They played cannibalistic or necrophiliac killers, crazed cops and deranged victims in Cat III movies, then went back to standard action movies. It was a surprise but not a shock when Wong won a Hong Kong Film Award as Best Actor...
...Evil Dead? (1991) is up there with ?Eternal Evil of Asia? as a spiked cocktail of Taoism, terror and tits. ?Run and Kill,? which Billy Tang made between ?Dr. Lamb? and ?Red to Kill,? matches those films in deranged fury with its tale of a fat shlub (Kent Cheng) whose wife is killed, and child char-broiled, by every triad goon and psycho slaverer west of the Himalayas. The movie gets a 10 on the mouth-agape scale. (Subway could not show it because of a rights tangle...