Chinese actress Zhao Wei’s (趙薇) directorial debut, So Young (致我們終將逝去的青春), will be among 10 Chinese films allowed into Taiwan this year following a drawing of random lots by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture on Wednesday.
The blockbuster film is about a young woman caught in an emotional struggle with two men.
The other films include romance stories The Whole Life ( 一生一世) and Pickles in Love (泡菜), animated feature Seer 3 (賽爾號大電影), romantic comedy A Wedding Invitation (分手合約), family film Red Reeds (一江明燭) and comedy Fake Fiction (摩登年代).
The list is rounded out with dramas The Falling Feather (飄落的羽毛), The Palace Lock Sinensis (宮鎖沉香) and Today and Tomorrow (今天明天).
The results of the draw meant that several films by big-name directors were passed over.
Prominent among them were Jia Zhangke’s (賈樟柯) award-winning crime film A Touch of Sin (天注定), Zhang Yimou’s (張藝謀) drama Return (歸來), Feng Xiaogang’s (馮小剛) comedy Personal Tailor (私人訂製) and Ding Sheng’s (丁晟) crime film Police Story 2013 (警察故事2013).
The ministry’s Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development said the limit on imported Chinese films will be raised to 15 per year under a trade-in-services pact signed by Taiwan and China.
The agreement was signed on June 21 last year in Shanghai, but it has not yet been approved by the Legislative Yuan.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching