News Links - 7/22/06

[dleedlee]

Gong Li, Tubbs, Crocker


Leehom Wang Chinese-American singer mixes rap, Tibetan vocals
http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/natio ... orylist=ny

"Miami Vice" Premiere in Los Angeles
http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3086/2006/0 ... 117375.htm

Lots of guts, little glory for film stuntmen
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfea ... T01&irec=0

MediaCorp Raintree Pictures gets Asian film award for "The Maid"
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/ ... 60/1/.html


Gangsters fear their children will be crime film victims
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 87,00.html

Japanese 'manga' make mobile-phone debut in N. America
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060722/kyodo/d8j0q9t80.html

Sweet-sour memories at Shangri-La Café - Chinese restaurants as art installation
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Conten ... 9483191630

[Brian Thibodeau]

It's funny, I've been planning on visiting that Chinese Restaurant art installation when I'm in Toronto a couple of weeks from now. Maybe they'll let me take pictures (yeah, right!) and I can post a couple here. In case anyone else reading these forums is from the region, admission to YYZ Gallery is free, so it could be part of a cool daytrip.

More info:
http://www.yyzartistsoutlet.org/exhibitions.asp?language=en



Karen Tam website (click "Portfolio" for more pic):
http://www.karentam.ca/english.html

I also mentioned to my girlfriend that sooner or later someone was going to do a "Korean Corner Store" installation because, much like many immigrant families who ran independent businesses in their adopted countries (including the families who ran the types of Chinese restaurants featured in Tam's installation), Korean families often lived (or live) in the apartments behind or above their corner variety stores. There are so many diasporic world cultures that could be represented by installations like these for the dialogue they inevitably bring about.

[dleedlee]

The installation should have included the video of the Chinese restaurant episode from Seinfeld.

[dleedlee]

Report: Taiwanese tycoon to build film studio in China
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?fi ... ec=apworld