Blog Entries on Arts and Entertainment
Found
A Film Review
Found…is clear about its purpose—to tell the stories of three girls who are looking for the puzzle pieces of their identity.
Rickshaw Boy
A Book Review
Can poverty rob a man of his soul? Can betrayal by the things you love most break the constraints of the God-given conscience and society’s mores? Rickshaw Boy challenges the reader with these wrenching considerations. Though set in a bygone era in a culture that has since been transformed by globalization, Lao She speaks to us clearly—perhaps even more so than to his contemporaries.
Beethoven in Beijing
A Film Recommendation
The remarkable story of the Philadelphia Orchestra's decades-long relationship with China is told in the documentary film Beethoven in Beijing. See it free until May 14, 2021.
3 Questions: Christian Architecture in China
An Interview with Alexander Quan
Visiting churches and other religious architecture in China—via videos.
Leap
A Film Review
A biographical sports drama spanning decades, telling the inspiring story of China’s women's national volleyball team.
Nian
A Film Review
“If we let our fears hold us back, we will miss out on all that is beyond what we can imagine.”
76 Days
A Film Review
Director Wu Hao takes his audience to Wuhan to experience what it was like to be a doctor or nurse in a hospital there, or to be a patient in one of the wards.
The Climbers
A Film Review
The true story of Chinese mountaineers who successfully summited Mount Everest (twice)—the Chinese way.
3 Questions: Far East Deep South
An Interview with Director Larissa Lam
"Chinese people in Mississippi? What happened there?"
Matter & Spirit: A Chinese/American Art Exhibition
Contemporary Christian art on display in Grand Rapids, Michigan.