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English loanwords have changed this language of the Guangfu people and gangster films
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The Life and Times of Yammie Lam
“Not crazy, just persecuted”—death of Hong Kong actress and MeToo figure highlight society’s treatment of sexual harassment and mental health
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Sightless Cinema
A day at Beijing’s Xin Mu Cinema, a low-key venue that provides movie screenings to the blind
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‘Brother Orange’ saga to hit big screen
And the film will star Jim Parsons, AKA Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory
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Coming soon: Must-watch Fall films
With just four months left to go, here’s nine of the best upcoming movies in 2017
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Chinese Movie Translations: Fall 2017
Foreign film names get nonsensical once again as film title translators phone it in
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Nationalist ‘Wolf Warrior 2’ smashes records
Action flick is China’s biggest-ever box-office success, but is it propaganda?
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Binge-watching a martial arts master
Huo Yuanjia is a legendary Chinese martial arts master who has been portrayed in plenty of classics
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Chinese Sci-Fi on Screen
China’s sci-fi tradition is mostly in novel form, but it occasionally makes it way to screens big and small
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