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Andreas Gursky was born on January 15, 1955 in Leipzig, Germany. He is a German photographer and a professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, which is as well in Germany. This photographer is best known for his monumental digitally manipulated photographs which portray various aspects such as consumer culture and busyness of modern life, resulting in dramatic images that mark the line between the representation and the abstract. Gursky began photographing in black and white with a hand-held…

Jackie Chan is a martial art film actor. Before he was born, his parents, Charles and Lee-lee Chan, travelled to Hong Kong, where they found a job to work for a French ambassador. His father became the ambassador’s cook and handyman (4). Jackie Chan, born in April 7, 1954, lived in Hong Kong with his father and mother. He was named Chan Kong-sang which meant “Born in Hong Kong” and was nicknamed Pao-pao, which meant cannonball, since his parents had never seen such a big baby (3-5). As…

In the film Chan is Missing, director Wayne Wang creates a detective story in which he allows the audience to be engaged with the characters in the film in order to find Chan. Upon the adventure of finding Chan, the audience comes to realize that Chan is this complex, changing, and elusive figure that Wang has presented. Presenting Chan through multiple perspectives, Wang undercuts the homogenized Asian America stereotypes and shows how they have no solitary identity. In essence, with the…

The problem of human inequality and the divisions within human society is a big part of the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” and it is still part of our society today. An example of this problem is the trial of Tom Robinson, Walter Cunningham Jr. being treated differently because of who he is, and the discrimination against black people. Our society is still dealing with this situation…

In “Love is a Many Splendored Thing,” Han Suyin and Mark Elliot fall in love fast and are forced to keep their love a secret because of her family and Hong Kong’s strict racial laws. In “The Big Sick,” Emily and Kumail fall in love, but unlike the other film, Kumail lets go of Emily because he believes their backgrounds are not an obstacle they can surpass, then he finds out Emily is under a medicated…

The film I Was Born, But… is a comedic gendai-geki film directed by Yasujiro Ozu in 1932. The film portrays a contemporary salary man moving his family to a suburb where they must adapt to a different way of life. The father, in search of a better life for his family, becomes the boss’s pet, diminishing himself for his entertainment, in good faith. The two brothers struggle to gain power and influence over the neighbourhood kids. The children act as an unstoppable force of nature, with little…

Entering Hong Kong felt mechanical, as most travel does- this time is so drenched in systematic motions that there’s not a moment to register the change in atmosphere. Leaving the airport, taking the train over the ocean onto the island, seeing rows of apartment buildings as concrete beauties, before they dissolve into the glass towers of the island: these are the moments that jar, that you realise the space you are in. But I realised we were trapped. Situated, from the train to the bus, with no…

The Year of the Dragon and Chan is Missing both address the crisis of identity for Asian Americans and attempt to disprove the fixed notions that surround Asian Americans in society. In Chan is Missing, Wang seeks to illuminate that Asian American identity extends beyond the perpetuated stereotypes. Racial stereotypes are used as the basis of identity for Asian Americans. In their investigation into what happened to Chan Hung, Jo and Steve interview various individuals who Chan Hung encountered…

Boba is a popular ingredient for many desserts in Asian countries. However, in the United States, boba is rarely used in foods that people consume on a daily basis. Boba is not usually eaten by itself; it can be added to tea or smoothies. It can also be used as the main ingredient for a sweet soup. Having grown up in Taiwan, the country where boba milk tea was invented, I love boba and have eaten boba for many years. It is a treat that I often crave in America, but I have discovered that boba is…

master who specialized in describing protagonists’ characteristics by details and the whole environment. Since he grows up in Hong Kong, a former British colony involving Chinese culture and western culture, he has lots of thinking on this metropolis and the people living there. Thus he directs bunch of films such like Chungking Express, telling the love stories happened in Hong Kong via protagonists’ characteristics and background music. In this movie, there are two independent and…