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...years, Stephen Chow was famous across Asia as the bad boy of Hong Kong comedy. Who knew he was also a wildly gifted director, until this Buster Keaton--esque martial-arts comedy? In old Shanghai, a gang has scared everyone off the streets--everyone except the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley, who help turn a mobster wannabe (Chow) into a Bruce Lee gotta-be. Behind the frantic fun is a directorial eye so acute it makes most Hollywood directors seem myopic...
...even Jackie Chan. Who knew that Chow was also a wildly gifted director, until this Buster Keatonesque martial arts comedy? In 1940s Shanghai, the Axe Gang, a vicious triad with a weakness for some West Side Story choreography, has scared everyone off the streets-everyone except the harder-than-jade residents of Pig Sty Alley, who help turn a mobster wannabe (Chow) into a Bruce Lee gotta-be. Chow wanted to explore and update the antique styles of kung fu, so he cast veterans of 70s Hong Kong action pics, among them Yuen Qiu (who?s a hoot...
...says Mowry. These pieces illustrate Asian views of the dragon, also an emblem of masculinity, known in China as the “yang.” The mythical phoenix is symbolic of the feminine component of the world, or the “yin.” A jade vase with nephrite yellow and brown markings—a wine vessel from the early eighteenth century—portrays the yin and yang relationship, with images of the dragon and phoenix on opposite sides. In another handscroll, from the seventeenth century, “The Twelve Zodiac Animals...
...Imperial Banquet in the Garden of Ten Thousand Trees, in which a similar chair, borne by 16 eunuchs, ferries Qianlong to a celebration with Torghut Mongols who kneel before him. A circle framing the portrait of Qianlong writing calligraphy on an enormous banana leaf is echoed in an intricate jade carving of a round moon gate - as well as in an architectural moon gate that separates two rooms in the exhibition. A display case of ruyi scepters is paired with a hanging scroll, The Yongzheng Emperor Admiring Flowers, in which that sovereign holds just such a symbol of power. Although...
SHADES OF JADE...