Fifth-generation Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige’s “Farewell My Concubine” wowed the Cannes jury under president Louis Malle in 1993 — all the way to a Palme d’Or win. But by the time the three-hour epic ...

Kang Tae Oh and Kim Se Jeong are becoming an official couple on MBC’s “Moon River”! “Moon River” is a fantasy romance drama ...

Joan Chen was only a teenager when she was awarded China's equivalent of the Oscar. Americans know Chen best for her roles in the TV series Twin Peaks and the film The Last Emperor. She is honored at ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The China National Peking Opera Company’s unmissable UK visit ended with Farewell My Concubine, the true(ish) Qin ...

The phrase “There, but for the Grace of God, Go I” was supposedly uttered by John Bradford in the sixteenth century, when he saw some prisoners on the way to being executed. It is a recognition that ...

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 ...

When I was a kid, nobody except us kids ever talked about sex. It was hush-hush at home. It was hush-hush in school. And it was most certainly hush-hush in church. The preacher not only didn’t talk ...