{"id":69565,"date":"2017-03-16T07:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69565"},"modified":"2017-03-02T13:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T17:06:04","slug":"once-upon-a-time-in-china-film-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=69565","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Time in China Film Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 16  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[69565]\"><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 Raymond Tsang, Doctoral Candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University.<\/p>\n<p>A distinctive update of a renowned tale: the life of the great physician and martial artist Wong Fei Hung (1847-1924). Set in the latter years of Qing Dynasty (1644 to 1912), the film depicts the crime-ridden and semi-colonialized city of Guangdong. <\/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 16 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-69565","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\/69565","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=69565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69566,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69565\/revisions\/69566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}