The Good Person of Setzuan
The Gods travel to Setzuan province looking for one good person.
Tag: china
The Luckiest People
A woman’s death forces a family to deal with its own misplaced priorities. That make this a comedy.
Infinite Kung Fu
McLeod’s first full length graphic novel is an epic zombie invasion that can only be repelled by the ancient art of kung fu.
Imagining India
How does one begin to plan the future of a country that deliberately uses late-night TV as a form of birth control? E.J. Iannelli mulls over the possibilities that IT mogul Nandan Nilekani dreams up in his book Imagining India.
Release the Cheerfulness, China
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Sino the Times
What’s the proper response to Chinese expansionism? As threat or opportunity? Shelton Hull cuts through the hype and bluster for all the johnny-come-latelies.
Purple Butterfly
It took Aaron Shaul a couple of viewings to unravel the web surrounding Zhang Ziyi’s latest film, Purple Butterfly, but it was effort well-spent.
Lekshun 2K
Marshall Presnell gives the thumbs up to American, wait, human ingenuity in search of new frontiers, and gives a thumbs down to the BIG CONCEPTS.
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