Posts Tagged ‘commentary’

(photo credit: Aidan Hughes, BRUTE Propaganda)

Since it exploded onto the scene at the beginning of 2010, I’ve become a fanboy of china/divide, a creative collaboration between three of the English language Chinese blogosphere’s (say that thrice fast) all-stars: Kai “Pick Me” or Pan “Me”, Chuck “If You Gonna Dance Wid Me I Gonna Throw” Custer “On Yo’ Face,” and my fave-de-la-fave Stan “the Man Wid Da Plan” Abrams, a lawyer who does way more than litigate.

This trio of blogging mandarins have demonstrated at other places online (here, here, and here mostly) that they are genuinely tapped into the blogging ethos of what’s worthy of copious mention about China for an international audience. And since the emergence of china/divide, this online lynch mob’s only moved from strength to strength. Read on.

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Yet another evening of Hong Kong classic cinema, this time with King Hu’s Shaw Brothers classic from 1966 Come Drink With Me/Da zui xia/Big Drunken Hero, starring drop-dead gorgeous (and Shanghai-born!) Cheng Pei-Pei/Zheng Peipei, as Golden Swallow, prancing around the screen like a prima ballerina and applying a major bad-ass hurt-on to all the baddies.

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It wasn’t as much of a movie-marathon weekend as it normally is around these parts, although I did manage to get to Ching Siu-Tung’s The Empress and the Warriors before it was over and so it left me with a few lingering thoughts.

The Empress and the Warriors

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