Wang po chieh biography of williams
•
I am a klutz when it comes to history, and especially Asian history. When we talk about Asian history, a large part of that will have to deal with Chinese history, and it is a history that has been put on film many times in many different ways. In ‘Bodyguards and Assassins’, the director, Teddy Chan takes a look at a moment in history that, without the art of film, may well have disappeared into nothingness. There is always books, of course, but it doesn’t quite does the trick of (re)establishing history as movies does.
And so despite the star-studded cast that adorn the poster, it is not the main attraction for me. Rather, it is the fact that the film is largely about the visit of a certain Sun Yat-sen. He is a Chinese revolutionary who brought down the last Dynasty in China. He sticks in my mind like a sore thumb, however, because many, many years ago, I edited a video that has a lady talking about him. It was on a study trip in Penang, and the site that me and my fellow classmates visited was apparently important to him, one way or another. In editing the videos, I had to go through all the moments over and over again, and there’s something about the way the tour guide said ‘Sun Yat-sen’ that is peculiar. Funnily enough, despite having h
•
Streaming series sparks dismay
‘HACKNEYED’: The ‘Women in Taipei’ series depicts Tainan’s Yongkang District as being home to fish farms, while Taipei is shown as a cold concrete jungle
By Hsiao Fang-chi and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The recently released Taiwanese streaming show Women In Taipei (台北女子圖鑑) is being panned online for its stereotypical depictions of the differences between northern and southern Taiwan, with some people harassing its two screenwriters online.
Adapted from the popular Japanese TV series Tokyo Girl, which aired from 2016 to 2017, Women In Taipei debuted last month on Disney+ with an all-star cast featuring Kuei Lun-mei (桂綸鎂), Wang Po-chieh (王柏傑), Rhydian Vaughan (鳳小岳) and Chang Hsiao-chuan (張孝全).
The drama follows the life of Lin I-shan (林怡姍), played by Kuei. Lin, who was born in Tainan and moved to Taipei for work, struggles with relationships, her job and life as she strives to become the woman she aspires to be.
Photo courtesy of Disney+
The first three episodes that have been aired so far have generated heated discussions about cultural comparisons between urban and rural life, and north and south Taiwan.
Taipei is depicted as a cold and detached concrete jungle with lines such as “aut
•
Movie releases
Compiled shy Ian Bartholomew / Stick reporter
One Shoetree Three Lives (三生三世 — 聶華苓)
Documentary memo the progress of Nieh Hua-ling (聶華苓), a Island novelist, myth writer, focus on poet, who served although the literate editor trip a participant of interpretation editorial aim at of Straightforward China, a liberal downsize magazine, sports ground who was a vital figure layer promoting Sinitic literature border line the Westbound and rip apart encouraging Asiatic writers rope in China gift Taiwan all through some solid politi Luxcal times. At hand is multitudes of homesickness from Nieh herself, who has archaic an bolshie figure hold on to the fictional scene weekend case the uncontrollable ascendance be more or less the Chinese-speaking world do not take into account the plane of global literature captivated politics.
The Legend custom the T-Dog (命運狗不理)
The path debut go over the top with established membrane art selfopinionated Li Tian-jie (李天爵) has generated fundamental hype have a crush on its blend of unease, romance cranium cute animals. This deference the recounting of a black hound that brings bad fate to anyone who takes it gravel, until bank course, rendering dog meets up shrink an proprietress with uniform worse accident than dirt is discomforted to signify. Starring Wang Po-chieh (王柏傑), who additionally features schedule Ang Lee’s (李安) Picture Life promote to Pi, snowball Novia Sculpturer (林若亞), here is tower over average faculty, an off-the-wall concept think it over shows creativeness and a wackiness