Thursday, March 09 06:30pm
China Institute
40 Rector Street, (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10006

This five-week film series is dedicated to classics of wuxia, China’s heroic stories of martial arts and swordplay, and accompanies China Institute’s exhibition Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd – 6th Centuries. Directed by guiding lights of Chinese cinema — King Hu, Zhang Yimou, John Woo, Feng Xiaogang, and Tsui Hark – each film is set in a different dynastic period, during a time of chaos marked by immense change. The screenings will be introduced by a distinguished scholar and will feature accompanying contextual materials written by series curator Nancy Jervis.

Introduced by Morris Rossabi, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University; Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Queens College

Legend of the Black Scorpion combines elements from two immortal Western plays—William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts—to create a Chinese tale of intrigue set in the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE)

Tickets are only $5 for non-members and free for members! For a full schedule of films visit: www.chinainstitute.org