Word: tang
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With such glorious motion sequences, the plot hardly seems to matter, particularly when you're watching two actors as physically uninhibited as Kaneshiro and Zhang run, fight, run some more, fight, fight again, and finally roll around in the wildflowers making sweet, uninhibited Tang-dynasty love. There is a hint of the divided and redivided loyalties that drove the heroes of Hero, but in Daggers the heart overthrows all. This is the kind of movie where a postcoital Zhang whispers to her lover?who's still technically on the other side of their nearly forgotten war?"If we meet again...
...Asian world has opened its arms to Western culture for a long time, largely because of the powerful economic influence," he explains. "In the Tang dynasty, from A.D. 600 to 900, when the Silk Road was at its peak, China had an open-door policy and foreigners could go there to make a living." Sheng sees a parallel nexus between trade and culture in the contemporary scene: "Asia's interest in Western culture today arises directly from the terrific boom in economic prosperity. Let's face it, culture and the arts always have a close tie to the economy...
...Physical appearance is always what first grabs a person’s attention no matter how superficial that is,” says Chibo Tang...
...Robin J. Tang ’04 is a biochemical sciences concentrator in Leverett House. He is a member of the Asian American Brotherhood...
...approach helps to explain why Zhang cast him for the role of an imperial guard with a serious Machiavellian streak, in his latest movie, House of Flying Daggers, which is scheduled for release this summer. Shot on a budget of about $20 million, Daggers is set in China's Tang dynasty (A.D. 618-906) and follows the loves, loyalties and betrayals between imperial rulers and members of an underground martial-arts society. Expectations are high: Zhang's 2002 film Hero earned an Oscar nomination and broke mainland box-office records for a Chinese movie by raking in some $27 million...