September 3, 2004
Congratulations to Voluntarily in China and his wife.
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How new is this? Google News, Chinese language edition. It looks like they are sourcing a fair amount of different Chinese language papers, including many mainland dailies and online news services (Sohu, Xinhuanet). UPDATE: I should have known, Danwei has already blogged this one.
This guy posted a great comment in China Digital News' post on reviews taking notice of the movie Hero's political content.
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A post by Brendan turned me onto Xinhuanet's RSS feed collection, and I note with a wink and a smile the Deng Xiaoping anniversary feed. Dave Winer would be proud.
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The New York Times has a long article (archived) on the making of Wong Kar Wai's latest movie, 2046 . There was a big gala for this movie in Shanghai last week, after which Wang Faye and Tony Leung rode in an older model car in a big parade downtown. I like that the review mentions Haruki Murakami; hopefully he'll get more attention as more people come to read his books. Kafka on the Shore is coming along slowly but surely...
[His movies'] witty invention, color-drenched visuals and romantic longing offer the kind of bittersweet satisfaction found in the fiction of Haruki Murakami or the photographs of William Gedney, about whose subjects John Cage once said, ''They seem to be doing happy things sadly, or maybe they're doing sad things happily.''
2046 opens this week in Shanghai. Tickets start at 32 RMB.
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Micah Sittig's Chinese improves and worsens with the phases of the moon. He enjoys non-fiction books, bicycling, foreign languages and ethnic restaurants. He is an inveterate globetrotter, but can always be found at micah@earthling.net
