eileen chengyin chowさんのイラストまとめ

And in my undergraduate class (Narrating Asia through Word and Image), reading @MsThiBui’s luminous The Best We Could Do.

[on the right: drawing by a student inspired by the work]

Torrential rains, 落英繽紛

Anna May Wong (1905-1961) - I love the illustrations here, with biographical details and her best-known early films and later TV work

Taipei 101 tonight
#新年快樂 #台北

(via Marcel Reyes-Cortez)

Chan didn’t get to shoot the entire film in black and white, as he wished, only the opening sequence of Xiaojun’s arrival in HK in 1985.

It’s a love letter to Hong Kong - and watching that decade of transition in the city from the vantage point of now - is wistful.

I, I can remember
Standing, by the wall
And the guns, shot above our heads
And we kissed, as though nothing could fall
And the shame, was on the other side
Oh we can beat them, forever and ever
Then we could be heroes, just for one day

David Bowie, “Heroes”
#BerlinWall30

An annotated “Xu Zhimo and his Friends,” and a fully completed version of the 2018 triptych by Chengdu artist Gao Xiaohua.

Came across this rather intriguing image: the poet 徐志摩surrounded by writers and artists of Republican-era China incl Lu Xun, Xu Beihong and Lin Huiyin, but also Dickens, Bertrand Russell, Katherine Mansfield and Tagore.

“Xu Zhimo and His Friends,” by Gao Xiaohua

Quiet nights of quiet stars, quiet chords from my guitar
floating on the silence that surrounds us
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams, quiet walks by quiet streams

“Corcovado,” my favorite song from this album
João Gilberto, safe travels
#everynightapoem

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