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Disney+ Michelle Yeoh in a scene from the upcoming show "American Born Chinese." Michelle Yeoh has been busy acting in a slew of upcoming projects and accepting awards celebrating her long career.

Grief and pain go to the bone in the Chinese director’s simple, beautifully shot tale about an escaped prisoner and an orphan
In 2019, this film from Chinese director Zhang Yimou because of, ahem, technical problems. The real reason, , was likely to have been politically motivated: the Chinese Communist party’s displeasure with the film’s portrait of the Cultural Revolution. Now, re-edited and partially reshot, it’s finally getting a release. And with all the tinkering and tweaks, what censors haven’t been able to expunge is the torment and suffering on the face of Zhang Yi’s political prisoner; this is a deeply felt film, grief and pain go to the bone.
Zhang Yimou has described One Second as a “love letter to cinema” and his story revolves around a mobile cinema touring Chinese villages in the early 1970s. Zhang Yi is an unnamed prisoner who has escaped from a labour camp after being told his teenage daughter appears in a newsreel being shown at the start of the film – he hasn’t seen her in years. But when he arrives in town, the prisoner is too late for the show. Setting off on foot for the next village, he spots a scruffy kid stealing a metal canister of celluloid film from the projectionist’s motorbike: this is Liu, an orphan, played by Liu Haocun with bird’s nest hair and ragged clothes, an urchin straight out of Dickens.

Ukraine setback weakens Russian position as leaders prepare to jostle for regional influence in Uzbekistan
Major setbacks for Moscow’s forces in Ukraine will further test the “limitless partnership” between China and Russia when their leaders meet this week for the first time since the invasion, analysts have said.
The meeting of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, scheduled for Thursday at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, is likely to involve jostling for influence in central Asia, where the two global powers have long waged a “quiet rivalry”.

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A new online trend has flooded Chinese social media platforms with images of influencers dressing like preppy American high school students and posing in front of Shanghai Ikea lockers, much to the ...

Disney+ is offering fans a first look at it’s new series American Born Chinese! The series was picked up back in October 2021 from Shang-Chi director Destin Daniel Cretton. For those who don’t know, ...

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