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...otherwise a rather pleasant journey. Sea of Poppies ends somewhere off the coast of Malaya, with the motley crew we met in India now poised to go off in myriad directions. Ghosh is coy about his next act, but speaks keenly of the month he spent researching in Guangzhou - the Canton of old. Could the Opium Wars soon entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache make him look "like some bloodthirsty Tartar...
...Work by the hotly touted 29-year-old sculptor and filmmaker appears this month at the Guangzhou Triennial and from Oct. 30 in a solo exhibition at Hong Kong's Ooi Botos Gallery. The Hong Kong show's centerpiece is a six-minute short depicting French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg wading slowly into the sea in a black evening gown...
...first Chinese pop performer to garner world-music acclaim. The Guangzhou-born Zhu Zheqin, better known by her Tibetan name Dadawa, was hailed (by a Western media obsessed with drawing parallels) as the "Chinese Enya" when her debut album Sister Drum was released by Warner Music in 1995. But interestingly, neither she nor Sa have presented themselves as mainstream Chinese. "To a Western ear, mainstream Chinese pop is too sweet - it sounds trivial," explains Baranovitch. "Minority artists offer something different and refreshing. There's a sense of primitiveness, spirituality and exoticism - it sells...
...fighting femme. They played together in only one previous picture: Tai Chi Master in 1993, the busiest year of the Hong Kong Renaissance, when the colony's robust movies enthralled action fans around the globe, and the leading actors were worked as hard as pre-teen seamstresses in a Guangzhou garment factory. (Li and Yeoh each made five other films that year.) Now both 45, they have lost little of their agility and none of their screen luster. Their duel atop the Great Wall of China is a reunion of titans, an Old Timers' Day for two actor-athletes still...
...apartheid found, when you try to order humanity according to race, you quickly descend into tragicomedy. Lai's friend Edwin Chang, 50, a caretaker, says he's lived with this absurdity all his life. He was born in South Africa to immigrants from the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, grew up in black townships and speaks English, Afrikaans and Zulu. "Some say we are black, some say we are Asian, some say we are colored, some call me a Boer [a collective term for Afrikaans-speaking white people]," he says. "It's confusing. Where do we stand? How should people...