Director's Picks: Ten Taiwan Films that Imagine Taiwanese America Director's Picks: Ten Taiwan Films that Imagine Taiwanese America
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Wish-Granting and Magic-Making in “When You Wish Upon a Lantern”
In Gloria Chao’s “When You Wish Upon a Lantern,” wishes don’t magically come true. They are received with kindness, guided, and often painstakingly maneuvered “into the light.” Born and raised in Chicago’s Chinatown, Liya Huang and Kai Jiang are childhood best friends whose families…
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Director’s Picks: Ten Films from Taiwan to Watch
By guest contributor Brian Hu, a film curator and educator with a focus on Asian and Asian American cinema. Where does one start with Taiwan cinema? While it was barely scraping by with a couple dozen features per year in the early 2000s, the Taiwanese film industry had once been one of the world’s…
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Between My Grandfather, Taiwan, and Me
I had just turned eleven years old when my gonggong passed away. I never got to know him very well; my memories of him are pieced together from summer trips to the East Coast, when we visited my mother’s side of the family. But between his deteriorating health and my distraction of getting to play…