{"id":69561,"date":"2017-03-09T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69561"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:02:36","slug":"legend-of-the-black-scorpion-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69561","title":{"rendered":"Legend of the Black Scorpion Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 09  06:30pm<br \/>\nChina Institute<br \/>\n40 Rector Street, (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10006<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/legend-of-the-black-scorpion.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[69561]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/legend-of-the-black-scorpion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This five-week film series is dedicated to classics of wuxia, China\u2019s heroic stories of martial arts and swordplay, and accompanies China Institute\u2019s exhibition Art in a Time of Chaos: Masterworks from Six Dynasties China, 3rd \u2013 6th Centuries. Directed by guiding lights of Chinese cinema \u2014 King Hu, Zhang Yimou, John Woo, Feng Xiaogang, and Tsui Hark \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by Morris Rossabi, Senior Scholar and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University; Distinguished Professor of History, CUNY Queens College<\/p>\n<p>Legend of the Black Scorpion combines elements from two immortal Western plays\u2014William Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet and Henrik Ibsen\u2019s Ghosts\u2014to create a Chinese tale of intrigue set in the Tang Dynasty (618\u2013907 CE)<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are only $5 for non-members and free for members! For a full schedule of films visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinainstitute.org\/public-programs\/arts-culture-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.chinainstitute.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 09 06:30pm China Institute 40 Rector Street, (2nd Floor), New York, NY 10006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69564,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69561\/revisions\/69564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}