2020/02/12 |
Chinese Movie Studio Upturned Its Business Model Due to Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has shut down movie theaters during Lunar New Year, causing movie studios with New Year screenings to lose billions of dollars. But one of them thought of a brilliant alternative.
2019/01/26 |
INTERVIEW: '10 Years Taiwan' Directors Dish on Taiwan's Future and Its Present
The News Lens caught up with '10 Years Taiwan' directors Lekal Sumi and Rina Tsou, who discussed what inspired them as directors and how Taiwan can avoid the film's dismal vision of the future.
2019/08/15 |
FILM REVIEW: 'Postcards From London' Puts a Spin on the Prostitution of Art
The 2019 Taiwan International Queer Film Festival runs from 8/15 to 8/25 in Taipei and from 8/28 to 9/8 in Kaohsiung. This film review is based on a complimentary media screening.
2022/08/11 |
Part of the Japanese Revolution in Fashion, Issey Miyake Changed the Way We Saw, Wore, and Made Fashion
Issey Miyake rejected terms like “fashion,” but his work allowed much of the world to reimagine itself through clothing.
2021/01/07 |
In the Age of Digital Streaming, Will Literature Survive?
How to learn to stop worrying and love the literature of our new streaming-centric life.
2019/01/25 |
Taipei Dangdai Art Fair: After the Famine, the Art Feast
The inaugural Taipei Dangdai contemporary art show brought out big spending art collectors while entertaining the masses.
2018/09/10 |
Taipei Hosts Asia-Pacific Film Festival, Showcasing Asia's Best New Movies
Taiwanese films scooped up two awards, including Best Director, and the event spotlighted Southeast Asian hits like 'Bad Genius' and 'Respeto.'
2023/01/20 |
Screenwriters up Their Game: Bringing Taiwanese Drama to the World
With the most free and democratic society in the Mandarin-speaking world, Taiwan’s government and companies are working together to produce original content that attracts the international audience.
2019/02/05 |
Peppa Pig Celebrates Chinese New Year... and Copyright Awareness?
Peppa Pig might be the perfect vehicle for China's campaign of international integration.
2021/06/16 |
‘River of Exploding Durians’ Makes a Virtue of a Small Budget
On the surface a critique of Malaysian political corruption and societal acquiescence — and it still is that — ‘River of Exploding Durians’ is grounded in one young man’s devastation at losing everyone he cares about.
2019/01/18 |
A Newly Released White Paper Reveals the Future of Taiwan's Cultural Diplomacy
The government has engaged in a conscious effort to raise awareness of Southeast Asian cultures and traditions, writes Wei Chun-ying.
2019/06/18 |
Taking Taiwan's Progress to the Global Stage
Organizations in other Asian countries are looking to Taiwan to show the way forward for LGBT rights.
2022/09/20 |
A Vivid Future, Rooted in Legend: Red Candle Games and the Making of Nine Sols
A successful crowdfunding campaign has delivered ‘Nine Sols’, a new title from Taiwanese game developer Red Candle. Its Taoist-cyberpunk imagery and action gameplay is a major break from previous hits ‘Detention’ and ‘Devotion’.
2019/08/20 |
FILM REVIEW: 'The Blond One' Crafts a Fleshed-Out Romance With Subtle Moments
The 2019 Taiwan International Queer Film Festival runs from 8/15 to 8/25 in Taipei and from 8/28 to 9/8 in Kaohsiung. This film review is based on a complimentary media screening.
2017/10/16 |
Book Review: Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Readers of this book cannot fail to reflect on today’s accounts of refugees forced from their homelands by repression and civil war.
2021/02/20 |
‘Recipe for Happiness’ Shows How Muddling Through Life Can Keep Us Sane
Following the everyday life of openly unambitious and mediocre civil servant Namgoong Jin-Soo, 'Recipe for Happiness' captures what it’s like to be a young adult in the age of precarious neoliberal ecotastrophe.
2023/03/06 |
‘Return to Seoul’ Portrays the Plight of the Culturally Rootless
Freddie has many faces, but underneath them all is the cultural rootlessness that drives her self-destructive acting out.
2020/12/17 |
GOG Backtracks on Releasing ‘Devotion,’ Gamers Up in Arms
GOG announced yesterday that Devotion, first removed in February, will return to the platform, but it is no longer the case.