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The cast and creatives behind the new Disney+ series "American Born Chinese" say it's a "surreal" feeling to have the project released into the world. Ben Wang stars as a teen growing up amid pressure ...

One writer highlights 10 impactful films and TV shows from Asian American creators in honor of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

US efforts to stifle China’s chip industry are thought to be part of a wider plan to hinder Beijing’s preparations for war
Signs of the burgeoning conflict between the US and China can be spotted in many different places, from balloons in the sky to videos on TikTok. But nowhere is it more apparent than on the microscopic wafers of silicon, otherwise known as semiconductors.
, or microchips, are tiny pieces of technology that power everything from microwaves to military weapons. The industry is worth more than $580bn (£466bn), but even that figure belies their importance to the global economy. Their existence powers several trillion dollars’ worth of goods and processes; without them the global economy would shudder to a halt.

There's over 20 different ethnicities represented in the Asian American community and we speak over 40 different languages," said one festival goer. "Hopefully people take this month as a chance to ...

Michelle Yeoh is truly doing everything everywhere all at once these days. Next up is American Born Chinese, which debuts Wednesday, May 24 on Disney+. The adaptation of the hit graphic novel of the ...

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re highlighting people whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we spotlight Dalip Singh Saund, a political trailblazer who ...

British Museum, LondonFrom a colossal painted scroll to a humble handprint, this beautifully curated show of more than 300 exhibits traces the resilience, innovation and decadence of 19th-century China – and the lamentable role of the British
She wears jade earrings and a midnight blue jacket, embroidered in gold to its mandarin collar. She sits very still, staring straight back at you from her watchful closeup. You could pick her out of a crowd, this shrewd woman with the incisive look and stringently combed hair – except that she no longer exists. For this is not now.
Nor is this a photograph, as it might at first seem, skimming a face from life in some Chinese city. In fact this is an ancestral portrait from Guanghzu province, painted in ink on paper at some unknown date in the 19th century. In the past, such images were posthumous, the faces chosen from albums of generic types, accessorised with personal ornaments and displayed in family shrines. But this one is so hyperreal in its exactitude of face, clothes and pose as to be clearly based on a photograph: Chinese art in the age of the camera.

‘Anti-spying’ raids on consulting firms and attacks on tech companies are being driven by party ideology, says academic Chris Marquis
To many western investors, China under president Xi Jinping is a tough nut to crack. While Chinese leaders insist that they welcome foreign investment, the ruling party’s extension of control to companies, with crackdowns on domestic tech giants and more recently the on consulting firms, including America’s blue chip Bain & Company, are puzzling to the outside world.
Chris Marquis, author and professor of Chinese management at the University of Cambridge, believes that part of the explanation lies in the ruling party’s ideology. He says one must “dig into the Maoist roots in Chinese institutions and political economy to try to understand ideas that Xi has”.

With a nod towards the seductive swing of the French New Wave, Anthony Chen creates an arresting portrait of three young people trapped within their own existential crises
Singaporean film-maker Anthony Chen brings warmth, sympathy and directness to this intimate drama set in Yanji on China’s border with North Korea. Three young people – two men and a woman – make a connection; each are looking for a way of breaking free from the emotional deep-freeze they’ve landed themselves in, just as the whole world wants to thaw itself out of the vast stagnancy created by the Covid pandemic.
At its best, this movie has the easy and seductively unencumbered swing of the French New Wave, with something of Godard’s Bande à Part. That film was surely on Chen’s mind when he created a scene in which his three characters have a crazy dare about who can steal the biggest book from the bookstore that they’re listlessly drifting through; a wild, giggling dash leading to a chaotic and humiliating denouement. But some plot points and characterisations are left unresolved or anticlimactically closed down; there’s some jeopardy about a North Korean criminal at large which is bafflingly dispensed with. The narrative meltwater makes things a bit soggy, and there is a frankly peculiar flourish of CGI in the woodland wilderness of the Changbai mountains that didn’t really get us anywhere, and jarred with the low-key realist immediacy of everything else. All three performances, however, are tremendous.

UK prime minister goes further than G7 summit statement in outlining challenge posed by Beijing
China poses the biggest challenge to global security and prosperity of our age with the “means and intent to reshape the world order”, Rishi Sunak has said.
The UK prime minister said G7 leaders including Japan, the US, Canada and European nations had shown “unity and resolve” in confronting the problems posed by Beijing.

Zibo has become a social media star for its distinctive barbecue style. Now the city is overrun with visitors.