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Review: The Twilight Years of Taiwan’s Sugar Railways

BooksEnglish
·November 30, 2025·1 min read
Dafydd Fell and Wang Hsiang’s The Twilight Years of Taiwan’s Sugar Railways is an insightful look at Taiwan’s railway history Read More

“Karst” Offers Sophisticated Character Study of Rural Life in China

EnglishFilm
·November 22, 2025·2 min read
Set amidst the plateaus of Guizhou, "Karst" presents the complex inner lives of farmers in Southwestern China Read More

“Girl” and “Left-handed Girl”: Two Tales of Mothers, Daughters, and Trauma

EnglishFilm
·November 16, 2025·5 min read
First, there was “American Girl” in 2021. Now we have “Left-handed Girl”, and, naturally, the succinctly titled “Girl”—two more coming-of-age dramas centred around young women (and the mothers who raise them). But where the former film is about a Taiwanese diasporic family returning from the US, these two new films are purely grounded in Taipei Read More

“The Homeless” Offers Well-Intentioned But Meandering Look At China’s Unhoused

EnglishFilm
·November 9, 2025·2 min read
Documentary "The Homeless" offers a valuable look at the lives of unhoused individuals in China, but with deficiencies in storytelling Read More

“As the Water Flows” Is a Warm Family Drama With Whiffs of “Eat Drink Man Woman”

EnglishFilm
·November 8, 2025·2 min read
Set in Yunnan, "As the Water Flows" offers a view across three generations of a family with humanistic warmth and strong character acting Read More

“Obedience” Provides Insightful Look at Hong Kong’s Garbage Collectors

EnglishFilm
·October 26, 2025·2 min read
Fly-on-the-wall documentary “Obedience” turns the lives of Hong Kong’s elderly garbage collectors into quiet and balanced poetry Read More

Hong Kong’s “Queerpanorama” Is Uneven and Mysterious but Beautifully Shot

EnglishFilm
·October 25, 2025·2 min read
Indie Hong Kong film "Queerpanorama" explores an unnamed protagonist's identity amidst echoes of the city’s 2019 pro-democracy protests Read More

Kaori Lai’s “Portraits in White” Captures Individuals Cast Adrift by the White Terror

BooksEnglish
·October 4, 2025·2 min read
Kaori Lai's Portraits in White is a skillful literary examination of individuals caught in the larger tides of Taiwanese history. Though not of the generation that directly experienced much of this history, but of the generation that came immediately after, Lai’s work proves a deft exploration of the subjectivities of those who lived through the White Terror Read More

“Dear Stranger” Gets Lost In Translation

EnglishFilm
·September 28, 2025·4 min read
Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima (of “Drive My Car”) and Gwei Lun-mei, the Japan-produced but English-language “Dear Stranger” stumbles with a choppy script Read More

以影像揭示時代的真實:「史泰德與法蘭克:攝影書與藝術民主化」展覽評介

ArtChineseEvents
·September 23, 2025·1 min read
《史泰德與法蘭克:攝影書與藝術民主化》對台灣的攝影愛好者而言,是個難得的機會,可以親眼目睹攝影史上極為傑出的藝術家羅伯特·法蘭克(Robert Frank),與當代最精湛、最有成就的膠印師與攝影書出版商格哈德·史泰德(Gerhard Steidl)之間的合作。 Read More

“My Sunshine” Pairs Superb Acting and Skilled Storytelling in Figure Skating Character Drama

EnglishFilm
·September 21, 2025·2 min read
The sophomore effort of director Hiroshi Okuyama, "My Sunshine" proves a noteworthy entry in contemporary Japanese cinema, and puts Okuyama on the map Read More

“Pigsy” is a Fun, Animated Take on “Journey to the West”

EnglishFilm
·September 16, 2025·2 min read
Pigsy is an inventive, CGI-animated take on Journey to the West. The movie is set in a futuristic city-state in which a technologically advanced “New World” development scheme is soon to be launched, and which selects those who contribute the most to society to become its residents. Protagonist Pigsy works for the developer of the “New World” but is not selected himself Read More
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