Bound in Heaven (Huo Xin, China 2024) After an esteemed 26-year career writing for the likes of Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons) and being …
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On Netflix I tend to watch dark stories, but when an ad popped up for Love Game in Eastern Fantasy I assumed it would be more of the same. I was pleasantly …
More than three decades after his death in a car accident in 1991 at age 52, a small sampling of Lino Brocka’s corpus of 66 feature films has slowly been …
Hollay Ghadery recently interviewed authors Wayne Ng and George Ng. Wayne was born into a Chinese immigrant family in Toronto, while George was born in China. Both authors share Chinese …
Bargain (Jeon Woo-sung, South Korea 2023) A man hires a high school girl for a good time at a secluded hotel, but each is in fact trying to ensnare the …
A dedicated high school teacher in Yogyakarta witnesses the implosion of her precarious family unit after they are subjected to a ruinous cyberbullying campaign following her fateful encounter with a …
Full spoilers ahead. Hidden in TIFF’s selections year after year are films that can ill afford the priceless combo of soft power, celebrity and public relations necessary to capture an …
Gung Haggis Fat Choy is not your typical celebration. Born out of the rich tapestry of Canadian multiculturalism, this unique event combines two seemingly disparate cultural traditions—Chinese New Year and …
Hakka Matriarchal ThreadsWearing and Weaving Hakka Roots: An Interview with Visual Artist Nicole Lau
by Allan Cho
Nicole Lau is a Chinese Canadian with Hakka ethnic roots. Lau is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in Vancouver. Lau held her solo exhibition “Home Kong” in Vancouver, …
Abigail Hing Wen is the New York Times bestselling author of Loveboat, Taipei, which is being adapted for film. She holds a BA from Harvard, a JD from Columbia Law School, and an MFA from …
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