Here's a HK Action film for you. It's got two of my favorite HK actresses in it.
So Close (Chik yeung tin si), Corey Yuen, 2002.
So much great asian cinema!
The Top Six Science Fiction Films
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_Coggins7
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Cory Yuen was one of the Seven Little Fortunes, the child Peking Opera troupe where Jacky Chan and Hung Chin Pao got their starts.
I go back aways with this stuff though, all the way to 1972 or so and the first Kung Fu craze. Jacky's only 5 years older than me, however, so he was around 17, and just graduating from the Opera School when I was 12 and watching Five Fingers of Death (a.k.a. King Boxer).
I go back aways with this stuff though, all the way to 1972 or so and the first Kung Fu craze. Jacky's only 5 years older than me, however, so he was around 17, and just graduating from the Opera School when I was 12 and watching Five Fingers of Death (a.k.a. King Boxer).
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Me too. I love this stuff. And have for many years.
Do you ever read Giant Robot? Its about all kind of asian pop culture, not just film, and lately they've gotten into art--not just writing about contemporary asian art, but running two gallerys in addition to (I think) four Giant Robot stores and a restaurant! And it all started with a xeroxed skater n' martial arts film zine! I love these guys and have been corresponding with them for years, as well as writing for them.
One of my sabbatical projects (a minor one, just something of personal interest to me) is an article I'll be pitching to them about a Japanese (or Japanese-American, I'm not sure if he's Issei, Nissei, or neither) who built his own bi-plane in the late 20's during the post-Lindberg aviation craze. He was trying for the first round-the-world flight, and sadly crashed in Utah. It was a well covered attempt (with coverage in the NYT) and something of a childhood mystery to me: I saw some of the remains of his plane in the Uintahs in the mid-60's, riddled with bullet holes from what my parents told me were "jackasses" who shot it up out of WW II anti-Japanese fervor (he crased in 1929). It's a fascinating little story, and I've yet to complete my research on it.
Anyway, back to Giant Robot. You may like it, or not. I wrote up an appreciation of them a few years ago for a Hong Kong based lifestyle magazine (which I also occasionally write for) called West/East. Its fun to see my articles translated into Cantonese.
Do you ever read Giant Robot? Its about all kind of asian pop culture, not just film, and lately they've gotten into art--not just writing about contemporary asian art, but running two gallerys in addition to (I think) four Giant Robot stores and a restaurant! And it all started with a xeroxed skater n' martial arts film zine! I love these guys and have been corresponding with them for years, as well as writing for them.
One of my sabbatical projects (a minor one, just something of personal interest to me) is an article I'll be pitching to them about a Japanese (or Japanese-American, I'm not sure if he's Issei, Nissei, or neither) who built his own bi-plane in the late 20's during the post-Lindberg aviation craze. He was trying for the first round-the-world flight, and sadly crashed in Utah. It was a well covered attempt (with coverage in the NYT) and something of a childhood mystery to me: I saw some of the remains of his plane in the Uintahs in the mid-60's, riddled with bullet holes from what my parents told me were "jackasses" who shot it up out of WW II anti-Japanese fervor (he crased in 1929). It's a fascinating little story, and I've yet to complete my research on it.
Anyway, back to Giant Robot. You may like it, or not. I wrote up an appreciation of them a few years ago for a Hong Kong based lifestyle magazine (which I also occasionally write for) called West/East. Its fun to see my articles translated into Cantonese.
From the Ernest L. Wilkinson Diaries: "ELW dreams he's spattered w/ grease. Hundreds steal his greasy pants."
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Me too. I love this stuff. And have for many years.
Do you ever read Giant Robot? Its about all kind of asian pop culture, not just film, and lately they've gotten into art--not just writing about contemporary asian art, but running two gallerys in addition to (I think) four Giant Robot stores and a restaurant! And it all started with a xeroxed skater n' martial arts film zine! I love these guys and have been corresponding with them for years, as well as writing for them.
One of my sabbatical projects (a minor one, just something of personal interest to me) is an article I'll be pitching to them about a Japanese (or Japanese-American, I'm not sure if he's Issei, Nissei, or neither) who built his own bi-plane in the late 20's during the post-Lindberg aviation craze. He was trying for the first round-the-world flight, and sadly crashed in Utah. It was a well covered attempt (with coverage in the NYT) and something of a childhood mystery to me: I saw some of the remains of his plane in the Uintahs in the mid-60's, riddled with bullet holes from what my parents told me were "jackasses" who shot it up out of WW II anti-Japanese fervor (he crased in 1929). It's a fascinating little story, and I've yet to complete my research on it.
Anyway, back to Giant Robot. You may like it, or not. I wrote up an appreciation of them a few years ago for a Hong Kong based lifestyle magazine (which I also occasionally write for) called West/East. Its fun to see my articles translated into Cantonese.
Very interesting. You write for Chinese language mass market magazines? Are you Chinese American? What other periodicals do you write for (just general interest stuff?)?
Anyway, back to Giant Robot. You may like it, or not. I wrote up an appreciation of them a few years ago for a Hong Kong based lifestyle magazine (which I also occasionally write for) called West/East. Its fun to see my articles translated into Cantonese.[/quote]
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Nope just a white girl from Utah.
I write for alot of things. I am a university professor--an actual tenured academic--but I have not pursued a strictly conventional academic career of only scholary writing.
I enjoy writing for a range of publications. I actually think that this varied experience has made me a better writer overall, as well as giving me extremely useful insights that help me teach. I'm an English professor (that is, I teach in an English dept, but what I teach encompasses film, popular culture and media studies, art, music, and cultural theory as well as "literature"), so I have to teach freshman writing classes. Having experience with writing for different audiences gives me an interesting set of experiences to teach from.
I'm also interested in lot of things, and this also goes against the academic grain. I like fashion and design, its an off-shoot of my interest in aesthetics, and that's how I made the contacts that allow me to write for "fashion" magazines like West/East.
I think this has cost me somewhat in terms of "my career." I don't teach at a famous important brand name university, for one thing (though I have gotten jobs over the graduates of such schools more than once!). But I never really cared about having a conventional academic career in the first place: being a good teacher, being a good scholar, being a good writer, being a good thinker--yes. That this doesn't necessary translate into academic stardom, I learned early on (not that I dismiss all of academia, far from it!). I have different priorities and frankly DJ-ing at The Cock is equally valuable to me as publishing in Critical Inquiry. Possibly more so.
One of my interests is asian culture and last summer I worked on what was one of the most challenging writing assignments I've ever taken on: I wrote encyclopedia entries for an encyclopedia of world literature in translation. My assignment was Banana Yoshimoto and Yukio Mishima (and some Simone de Beauvoir entries). The hardest thing I have ever written was the entry on Mishima's tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Writing something under 2000 words on four of the most philosophically intricate novels ever written was a harrowing task. As was writing the bio on Mishima. But, my god, what I gained in writing discipline!
I write for alot of things. I am a university professor--an actual tenured academic--but I have not pursued a strictly conventional academic career of only scholary writing.
I enjoy writing for a range of publications. I actually think that this varied experience has made me a better writer overall, as well as giving me extremely useful insights that help me teach. I'm an English professor (that is, I teach in an English dept, but what I teach encompasses film, popular culture and media studies, art, music, and cultural theory as well as "literature"), so I have to teach freshman writing classes. Having experience with writing for different audiences gives me an interesting set of experiences to teach from.
I'm also interested in lot of things, and this also goes against the academic grain. I like fashion and design, its an off-shoot of my interest in aesthetics, and that's how I made the contacts that allow me to write for "fashion" magazines like West/East.
I think this has cost me somewhat in terms of "my career." I don't teach at a famous important brand name university, for one thing (though I have gotten jobs over the graduates of such schools more than once!). But I never really cared about having a conventional academic career in the first place: being a good teacher, being a good scholar, being a good writer, being a good thinker--yes. That this doesn't necessary translate into academic stardom, I learned early on (not that I dismiss all of academia, far from it!). I have different priorities and frankly DJ-ing at The Cock is equally valuable to me as publishing in Critical Inquiry. Possibly more so.
One of my interests is asian culture and last summer I worked on what was one of the most challenging writing assignments I've ever taken on: I wrote encyclopedia entries for an encyclopedia of world literature in translation. My assignment was Banana Yoshimoto and Yukio Mishima (and some Simone de Beauvoir entries). The hardest thing I have ever written was the entry on Mishima's tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Writing something under 2000 words on four of the most philosophically intricate novels ever written was a harrowing task. As was writing the bio on Mishima. But, my god, what I gained in writing discipline!
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Coggins, I would be remiss if I did not point out to you the call for papers for representations of Mormons in literature and popular culture that I posted in the Celestial forum.
Maybe you'd be interested in contributing?
Maybe you'd be interested in contributing?
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Coggins7 wrote:... I was 12 and watching Five Fingers of Death (a.k.a. King Boxer).
My favorite kung fu movie. Speaking of Sci-Fi, how about that French one, Fantastic Planet? I liked that one. Or, does anyone remember the old Japanese one, The Mysterians or Forbidden Planet with Robbie the Robot? How about Zardoz?
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