Tristan Shaw is an American writer who enjoys folklore, film, and history. You can follow him on Twitter @Tristan89201760
Is there room for poetry in contemporary society? Iron Moon, an award-winning documentary that splices together the working-class life of its subjects with their work, suggests poetry...
April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating with a series of articles that looks at Chinese poetry, both past and present. Our last piece was about Du Fu’s...
April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating with a series of articles that looks at Chinese poetry, both past and present. We began earlier...
Before she became the most powerful woman in China and imposed her vision of art and culture on the country, inflicting untold violence along the...
City of Fire, the film that inspired Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, is a masterclass in the Hong Kong crime genre. Since the 1980s, the Hong Kong...
Persecuted and misunderstood, Shi Hui was one of many individuals swept up and destroyed by the Anti-Rightist Movement. Chinese cinema is irrevocably poorer for it...
A pleasant surprise of a movie that’s arrived at the appropriate time. A mere three months after starting its run in Taiwanese theaters, Netflix...
A dark and provocative glimpse at China’s celebrity streaming culture Originally founded as a gaming chat site in 2005, YY.com has become one of...
Center image: All’s Well, End’s Well; clockwise from upper left: Rumble in the Bronx, The Chinese Feast, King of Comedy, The Dream Factory ~ The...