In a sign that Maggie Cheung (
The simple answer to the question would be that she's never done a Hollywood film, but the article was actually trying to ask why she's never done that.
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The article raises a few possibilities as to why Cheung hasn't broken Hollywood yet: audiences aren't ready for an Asian actress who is more than just a kung-fu-fighting dragon lady; she is not interested in the half-baked scripts tossed her way (she turned down a role in X-Men 2); and she's too busy. But for all her snubbing of Hollywood, Cheung is eager to explore new territory, the article says, and her award-winning role in the soon-to-be-released Clean, written and directed by her former husband Olivier Assayas, is maybe the first warning shot of her ascendancy in the West. Five-thousand words in The New York Times can't hurt either.
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Stefanie Sun
Stefanie didn't only lose her lunch last weekend, but she also lost her first-place spot on the Asia Music charts to Mayday, who just released their fifth album. The rock band put out the album to mark its fifth anniversary and reception has been strong -- their album took up over 30 percent of total pop music sales last week.
Things are looking up for the country's top pop diva A-mei
Local media have been salivating over recent developments in the love life of Taiwanese actress Alyssa Jia (
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
Located down a sideroad in old Wanhua District (萬華區), Waley Art (水谷藝術) has an established reputation for curating some of the more provocative indie art exhibitions in Taipei. And this month is no exception. Beyond the innocuous facade of a shophouse, the full three stories of the gallery space (including the basement) have been taken over by photographs, installation videos and abstract images courtesy of two creatives who hail from the opposite ends of the earth, Taiwan’s Hsu Yi-ting (許懿婷) and Germany’s Benjamin Janzen. “In 2019, I had an art residency in Europe,” Hsu says. “I met Benjamin in the lobby
April 22 to April 28 The true identity of the mastermind behind the Demon Gang (魔鬼黨) was undoubtedly on the minds of countless schoolchildren in late 1958. In the days leading up to the big reveal, more than 10,000 guesses were sent to Ta Hwa Publishing Co (大華文化社) for a chance to win prizes. The smash success of the comic series Great Battle Against the Demon Gang (大戰魔鬼黨) came as a surprise to author Yeh Hung-chia (葉宏甲), who had long given up on his dream after being jailed for 10 months in 1947 over political cartoons. Protagonist
Peter Brighton was amazed when he found the giant jackfruit. He had been watching it grow on his farm in far north Queensland, and when it came time to pick it from the tree, it was so heavy it needed two people to do the job. “I was surprised when we cut it off and felt how heavy it was,” he says. “I grabbed it and my wife cut it — couldn’t do it by myself, it took two of us.” Weighing in at 45 kilograms, it is the heaviest jackfruit that Brighton has ever grown on his tropical fruit farm, located