中国女性史诗小说《喜福会》的作者谭恩美(Amy Tan)在近期出版的回忆录中提到了她的祖母，一位死于可能是故意吸食鸦片过量的“concubine”。这个词通常被翻译为“妾”。在韦氏词典里，它的含义是： 一个与一名男性同居，但非对方妻子的女人：比如 a：一个 ...

To celebrate the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, which will fall on Tuesday in 2024, the National ­Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) will present a series of exciting performances, including the ...

Exclusive: Film Movement Classics will bring a 4K uncut restoration of Chen Kaige's provocative 1993 Palme d'Or winner to North American theaters this September. Watch the trailer here. At last, ...

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival, Chen Kaige’s historical epic, Farewell My Concubine, spans fifty years of 20th-century Chinese history while shining a spotlight on the ...

A well-crafted Joseon Dynasty palace saga in which a royal consort is thrown into a merciless game of thrones, "The Concubine" seduces by way of a slow but ultimately gratifying plot reversal. A ...

The royal concubines of the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) are one of the most popular sources for storylines for Korean periodic dramas and films. Whether based on true accounts of history or simply ...

There was a lot of hype before the film began with people talking about how erotic the film was. Do you think this helped ticket sales? I didn’t think that kind of buzz was ideal, but in a way I ...

A Scene from the film of 'Farewell My Concubine' (1993). Photo: IC Announced by the well-known US musical composer Jason Robert Brown via Twitter, a new musical project adapted from the classic ...