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Bold dance drama impresses

[2013-12-27 07:29]

In early August, the National Center for the Performing Arts pins down its program for the upcoming spring season that usually starts in early January.

Growing and learning from vegetables

[2013-12-27 07:29]

On a bright sunny day before winter's chill arrived, two dogs and a cat are enjoying a siesta under the shade of an old peach tree with branches weighed down by fruit. The fragrant bouquet of soil, tomatoes, cucumbers and corn floats through the warm air from nearby farms.

Festivities and food miles

[2013-12-27 07:29]

This week, we demolished about 4 kilograms of baby pork ribs, two whole lamb legs and about another kg of chicken wings. To be fair, we had a lot of help to eat them, and it was over four meals through Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day.

What's new

[2013-12-27 07:29]

Funny gamblers hit cinemas in February

Hot ticket with popcorn

[2013-12-26 08:16]

It's hard to pinpoint yearzero for the rejuvenation of China's film industry, but 2013 will probably be remembered as the year the industry gained full confidence and changes happened faster than any prognostication. By the end of 2013, China's box-office total is expected to hit 21.5 billion yuan ($3.54 billion), 10 times the revenue of 2006. Last year's number already placed China as the second-largest cinema market in the world, next only to the United States. But only this year did the ratio of domestic releases rise well above the 50 percent demarcation, and without any palpable manipulations.

Picking (Apart) the bad apples

[2013-12-26 08:16]

Switch: A heist film set in Dubai, Tokyo and Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, and crammed with unintentional kitsch.

A knockout year for cinema

[2013-12-26 08:16]

The year 2013 will be remembered for the spectacular takeoff of China's film market, and it will also go down in history as the year bad movies ruled, or at least shared, the box office and public consciousness as often as, if not more frequently than, good ones. Here is the result of painstaking scavenging for something valuable from a big pile of cinematic fluff and trash.

One man's journey through a contentious 2013

[2013-12-26 08:16]

This year, I published an English-language book, titled A PracticalGuide to Chinese Cinema 2002-2012 which is now available in the Kindle store, but it does no include two of the most dramatic episodes that happened to me as a film critic. They might have shaped film criticism in China, though.