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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Concubine is an Eastern film whose subject, scope and nonstop bustle will be agreeable to Western moviegoers. Anyone can appreciate the splendor of the theatrical pageantry or the dagger eyes of Gong Li as a dragon lady whose only commandment is survival. The scenes in the Peking Opera School, where boys are caned for doing wrong or right, are no less horrifying than the later tableaux of public humiliation at the hands of the Maoists. But Chen clearly sympathizes with the schoolmasters. From such brutality, he suggests, artists are created. Concubine offers another moral: From the crushing cultural restrictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reviews Cinema: Oct. 18, 1993 | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...lesbian or gay characters. Perhaps if there had been, the movie could have been improved. Many all-male movies could certainly have been made more complex and realistic by including female characters. But "The Joy Luck Club" should not have the responsibility of representing all Asians, just as "Dragon" should not have been expected to focus on Asian women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Take Center Stage in 'Joy Luck Club' | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

Yarrow sang some of his popular tunes from the 60s, including "Blowing in the Wind", "Puff the Magic Dragon" and "Day is Done...

Author: By Stephanie P. Wexler, | Title: Peter Yarrow Sings at IOP | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

Nowhere is there to be found a positive image of an Asian male apart from Bruce Lee, whose legend was recently revived with the film, "Dragon...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: Unaccepted Images | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

...wrong; I thought "Dragon" was a great movie, and I've seen every Bruce Lee film at least three times. But why is it that he is the only thing close to being an Asian male role model? Why is it that an Asian man cannot be a heroic figure unless he stays within his cultural idiom, especially one so exaggerated as martial arts? Are we never to be seen as anything but strangers from another land, outsiders like Cain the Wanderer from the TV series Kung...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: Unaccepted Images | 10/8/1993 | See Source »

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