If Jet Li fights Jackie Chan, who will win? The audience will, says Rob Minkoff, director of The Forbidden Kingdom (Gongfu Zhi Wang), which premieres in North America today opens in China six days later.
Should literature address more social issues, or should it get closer to the writer's own heart and focus on one's own experiences?
The voices of Chinese poets are rarely loud, but when they speak, their conviction is powerful and they share a voice on one issue: the environment.
John Smith has been in China three times since taking over as chief executive of BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2005. Like many other foreign visitors to this economic powerhouse, his destinations have always been Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.
Award shows make me uncomfortable. Not for the obvious reasons that they are contrived and uninteresting, but because my agent insists I show up, press the flesh and play nice. It's like being the only adult at a kiddies' birthday party with so many "prima donnas".
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