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American Born Chinese (2023) Douban TMDB Bangumi
American Born Chinese Season 1 part of TV Series: American Born Chinese
6.4 (86 ratings) director: 德斯汀·克里顿 / 刘玉玲 actor: 杨紫琼 / 关继威
Jin Wang is an average teenager balancing high school and home life. When he meets a new foreign student on the first day of the school, even more worlds collide as Jin is unwittingly entangled in a battle with Chinese mythological gods.
June 2, 2023 watched
哈哈哈 沙僧還是沒有什麼台詞。挺好看呢。放得開,不解釋,該怎麼編就怎麼編,直接開幹,爽!很多內涵、寓意也挺好的。
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Our Missing Hearts Goodreads Douban Sukkertoppen
author: Celeste Ng publishing house: Penguin Press 2022 - 10
A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, their lives have been governed by laws written to preserve “American culture” in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic—including the work of Bird’s mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet who left the family when he was nine years old.

Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn’t know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn’t wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Turning Red (2022) IMDb Bangumi Douban Douban TMDB WikiData Skybridge
Turning Red
7.8 (1393 ratings) director: 石之予 actor: 萝莎莉·蒋 / 吴珊卓
other title: 青春变形记 / 熊抱青春记(港)
Young actress Rosalie Chiang lends her voice to Mei Lee, a 13-year-old who suddenly “poofs” into a giant red panda when she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS). Sandra Oh voices Mei Lee’s protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, who is never far from her daughter—an unfortunate reality for the teenager. Directed by Shi and produced by Lindsey Collins, Disney and Pixar’s “Turning Red” is now streaming exclusively on Disney+.
June 10, 2022 watched
奶奶姨媽們摔碎那些大媽式樣的配飾釋放“被封印的那部分自我”的那下挺感動的。一下想到一篇關於天津盤頭大姨的文章,那種驕傲自信還有互相的連結真美好。還是體會不到紅熊貓這個神仙/超能力的各方面的設定是想表達女性或者亞裔女性的什麼特質或者什麼方面,除了封印起自己這個動作以外。然後…這才是真正經典的“亞裔式”和解大團圓啊,茗都整成那樣了,最後還是一句“我是你媽”就勾銷了 whew…真是替EEAO喊冤,人家那哪兒是大團圓了…
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After Yang (2021) Douban Eggplant.place TMDB WikiData IMDb
After Yang
7.4 (171 ratings) director: Kogonada actor: 科林·法瑞尔 / 朱迪·特纳-史密斯
other title: A Vida Depois de Yang / Despidiendo a Yang
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
May 30, 2022 watched
……嗯…就是嘎,究竟是啥子才讓她成為一個四川人喃……
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Nice Chinese Girls Don't (2019) Douban
director: Jennifer Abod actor: Kitty Tsui
In NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON'T, Kitty Tsui recounts her emergence as a poet, artist, activist, writer, and bodybuilder in the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement in San Francisco. She narrates her experience of arriving to the States as an immigrant from Hong Kong by way of her own original poetry and stories. Tsui wrote the groundbreaking Words of a Woman Who Breathes Fire, the first book written by an Asian American lesbian. She is considered by many to be one of the foremothers of the API, Asian Pacific Islander, lesbian feminist movement. In 2018, APIQWTC, Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women & Transgender Community honored her with the Phoenix Award for lifetime achievement. In 2019, her alma mater, San Francisco State University inducted Tsui into the Alumni Hall of Fame. Her forthcoming books include NICE CHINESE GIRLS DON'T, Battle Cry: Poems of Love & Resistance, and Fire Power: Poems of Love & Resilience. Tsui currently lives in Oakland, California, and is writing a screenplay, Unmasked.
Chinese in the Frontier West: An American Story (2001) Douban
director: Loni Ding
other title: Ancestors in the Americas - Part 2
This film documents the large-scale migration of Chinese to California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s and the central role that these immigrants played in developing the American West by building the first Transcontinental Railroad and transforming California into the breadbasket of the nation.
Their landmark legal battles to overcome discrimination helped to develop U.S. civil rights law, setting key precedents and expanding the definition of what it means to be an American.
May 10, 2022 watched
帶來柑橘和櫻桃在加州結出累累碩果,排幹沼澤耕耘成萬畝良田。更讓人拍案叫絕的是捕獲被白人認為不可食的鮑魚,鮑肉晾幹變成美味,返銷亞洲,螺殼打磨成擺件,賣給白人當裝飾擺件,為後輩的發展鋪路。
片中一個教授說他想不到有哪條被華人認為有歧視嫌疑的法律沒有被華人挑戰過,這樣行動的結果就是 When we got justice for ourselves, we got it for everybody. ……現在的那些高等華人是不是該補補後半句的課啊。
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COOLIES, SAILORS, SETTLERS: Voyage to the New World (1996) Douban
director: Loni Ding
other title: Ancestors in the Americas series - Part I
Traces the global forces that brought the first Asians -- Filipinos, Chinese and Asian Indians -- to the Americas and the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th centuries, and looks at their lives as sailors, coolies, and finally settlers.
May 9, 2022 watched
美籍華裔秘魯人、古巴人、印裔圭亞那人…亞洲人比美國更早來到這片土地…勤勞的雙手在沉重的歷史中締造傳奇。經常說起華人歷史就是標籤一樣的兩個東西“修鐵路” “排華法案”就沒了似的。這部影片介紹了更多華人和亞洲人來到新大陸的經歷和偉大的成就。
中印菲三國人民友誼地久天長。
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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) IMDb YetiWatch Min reol Douban Bangumi WikiData TMDB Skybridge
Everything Everywhere All at Once
7.9 (2346 ratings) director: 丹·关 / 丹尼尔·施纳特 actor: 杨紫琼 / 斯蒂芬妮·许
other title: 瞬息全宇宙 / 妈的多重宇宙
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
May 1, 2022 watched
[重新短評] 滿心替旁邊這位感到激動,心想竟然把女性華人移民在新大陸的落差、孤獨、迷茫描寫得這麼生動、刺激甚至還能讓人不舒服的時候,被批評選了個什麼爛電影 [狗頭] Still... 還是堅持自己的看法,講華人開洗衣店沒問題,講華人就要講家庭、親子沒問題,我不覺得我們的生活已經脫離這些元素了,這些元素都還沒有被放到大銀幕上討論透。這部電影並不是在加強刻板,而是把和刻板一致的表象下面的前因後果掰開了讓所有人看,包括主角所屬的群體自己。單純地去說“為什麼不拍這樣/那樣的華人”至少是跑到了另一個問題上。這部電影非常卓越地完成了它的任務。
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Let's Eat (2020) Douban
5.8 (5 ratings) director: Dixon Wong actor: Amy Kuo / Nora Ng-Quinn
Let's Eat follows the story of an immigrant mother and her daughter as they navigate through the beauty and challenges of life. Despite the difficulties they face, the warmth and love of family provides comfort and closeness, and cooking becomes a symbol of their unconditional love for one another.
Watercress Douban Goodreads
Watercress
author: Andrea Wang publishing house: Neal Porter Books 2021 - 3
Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.
Driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's parents stop suddenly when they spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. Grabbing an old paper bag and some rusty scissors, the whole family wades into the muck to collect as much of the muddy, snail covered watercress as they can.
At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family get food from the grocery store? But when her mother shares a story of her family's time in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged. Together, they make a new memory of watercress.
Andrea Wang tells a moving autobiographical story of a child of immigrants discovering and connecting with her heritage, illustrated by award winning author and artist Jason Chin, working in an entirely new style, inspired by Chinese painting techniques. An author's note in the back shares Andrea's childhood experience with her parents.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
Feb. 11, 2022 read 看到華裔用“以…為恥”就特別應激。儘管作者是想以恥反恥,但不也還是恥嗎。想給作者掛個青少年心理專家號驅散一下青春期的陰影。爹媽沒什麼錯,不代表你就有錯啊,有其他路的嘛。……買點種子種一種!
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Boogie (2021) Douban
Boogie
director: 黄颐铭 actor: 泰勒·高桥 / 泰勒·佩姬
other title: 布吉 / 布吉闯篮关(台)
一心想要进入NBA打篮球的少年成长故事。在父母莫大的压力下,进入有全额奖学金的菁英大学是唯一的出路,而他则必须在新女友、新学校、球场上的竞争对手以及喘不过气的期望中找到自己的出路。
Dec. 6, 2021 watched
哎媽呀 這部電影真的…[扶額] 本著“看了就要看完”的一貫原則,外加“不同的歷史 不同的經驗 不同的表述”等等這類平日積攢的三腳貓社科知識加持才撐過來。其中對父母的描寫還是覺得分寸感欠佳,該說的話其實已經說到了,但是其他空間也被塞得滿滿的,或許導演憋了太久實在是剎不住車,嘿嘿,懂了。不過也慶幸撐過來了,看到了對身份的幾段非常贊的表達…然後繼續撐到結束。做個不恰當的比喻,就像每次和你無業鋼鐵直酗酒啃老社達愛國表舅侃大山他總能說出一些能讓你驚掉下巴、忘掉他所有惡習的金句一樣。Eleanor說你要Fight for being Chinese真是把慣常聽到的Fight for Chinese(aka 長中國人志氣)甩出一萬個天際。另外看在該片突出表現了第三世界裔人民大團結,尤其是中非裔友愛的面子上,給“榮譽四星”。
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Living for Change Douban
author: [美] Grace Lee Boggs publishing house: University of Minnesota Press 2016 - 8
No one can tell in advance what form a movement will take. Grace Lee Boggs’s fascinating autobiography traces the story of a woman who transcended class and racial boundaries to pursue her passionate belief in a better society. Now with a new foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley, Living for Change is a sweeping account of a legendary human rights activist whose network included Malcolm X and C. L. R. James. From the end of the 1930s, through the Cold War, the Civil Rights era, and the rise of the Black Panthers to later efforts to rebuild crumbling urban communities, Living for Change is an exhilarating look at a remarkable woman who dedicated her life to social justice.
Source: Publisher
Dec. 5, 2021 read
感覺行文特別流暢好讀。真是不立志把美帝搞垮的美國人不是真·美國人。看她講怎麼鬧革命,又特別容易,又特別難。專注在最基層、微觀的問題,自己和戰友們也不是什麼天降神人,就是懷著對活生生個體的關注、對自己從不間斷的挑戰自然發生的結果。另外,結合現實就覺得,資-社、中-美、東-西……這一對兒對兒的,哪個不是看到對方試驗的失敗就認為是對自己成功的證明,所以才有了望不到頭的各種奇觀式的悲劇、鬧劇呵?
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Tigertail (2020) IMDb Douban WikiData TMDB
Tigertail
4.4 (20 ratings) director: 杨维榕 actor: 李鸿其 / 李坤珏
other title: 虎尾 / タイガーテール -ある家族の記憶-
2020 film directed by Alan Yang
Dec. 3, 2021 watched
抱著準備接受批評的態度開始看…提心吊膽…喲!巴掌扇過來了…咦?沒打我臉上…嘿!這個比我爛好多咧!!……這什麼鬼諒解啊!換女導演!不能就這麼饒了這老小子!
馬泰的表演很棒,口音什麼的不是問題,扣這個真是沒意思。
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Far East Deep South (2020) Douban IMDb
director: Larissa Lam actor: Baldwin Chiu / Caliya Chiu
When a Chinese-American family travels from California to Mississippi to visit the grave of their ancestors, they stumble upon surprising revelations. Along the way, they meet a diverse group of local residents and historians, who shed light on the racially complex history of the early Chinese in the segregated South. Their emotional journey also leads them to discover how the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 impacted their family and how deep their roots run in America.
Nov. 26, 2021 watched
不看不是中國人!![怪怪的]
一個尋常華裔人家尋根故事竟然可以這樣高潮迭起,就像大壩被掏開一個小洞之後一發不可收拾。
Deep South的一個無名小鎮上,不僅存在過生機勃勃的華裔社區,不同族裔的生活更在這些不被這個國家歡迎的Chinaman開的小店裡匯聚,尤其是華裔和非裔的唇齒相依讓人動容,與今日海內外高等華/漢們的自私猥瑣形成鮮明對比。當你不把別人當人看的時候,就已經選擇了成為魔鬼。
在主人公趙錦昌(K.C. Lou)的訃告裡還寫著他的父親趙仲流(Charlie Lou)“was born in New Orleans, Louisiana”,儘管片尾的檔案顯示他其實是出生在舊金山。想必是趙老先生在紐奧良生活過相當的時光才會有這樣的誤會。所以這還是一部 [Made in NOLA] 電影。……還要再看5遍!
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