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...Malaysia is hardly unique in Asia for the ubiquity of pirated DVDs. The U.S.-based MPA estimated that in 2005 its six member studios lost $1.2 billion to Asian movie pirates. In Shanghai, where I used to live, a popular shop called Movie World started up in March offering thousands of bootleg DVDs to a mainly foreign clientele. But competition is fierce in China. The next week another store opened for business across the street. Its English name? Even Better Than Movie World...
LUST, CAUTION Ang Lee, whose Toronto favorite Brokeback Mountain lost the big Oscar to Crash, has a Chinese drama set in wartime Shanghai starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Hero) and new face Tang Wei. The movie must be steamy; the U.S. ratings board slapped a proscriptive...
...academics from the school of Art & Design at the U.K.'s University of Wolverhampton went to China to forge links with educational institutions. While they were there, they fell into a discussion with Shanghai University Professor Wang Dawei about glass art - one of the key subjects offered at Wolverhampton. It quickly emerged that the subject was not taught at all in China's fine-art institutions, even though the country produced a staggering 80% of the world's processed glass. Wang resolved to do something about it, and in 2000 Shanghai University's glass studio was launched. It was headed...
...blowing it. "They give our glass a typical Chinese style." This is visible in Guan's own work, where elegant kiln-cast sculptures recall the primal forms of William Morris but represent specifically Chinese objects such as swords and ancient city gates. The meditative works of Zhuang Xiaowei - the Shanghai pioneer - explore space and form in the manner of Barbara Hepworth or Henry Moore, but they are invariably infused with Chinese symbolism: a transparent cast-glass flute imbued with royal-blue pâte de verre forms a beautiful allusion to China's traditions in ink, for instance. Zhuang...
...field. Toward that end, a major expansion is taking place in the subject's teaching, with existing undergraduate and graduate studio-glass programs being supplemented by new courses in cities including Hangzhou, Nanjing, Xi'an and Guangzhou. An ambitious new glass-art museum is also being planned for Shanghai, in time for the city's 2010 World Expo...