Features
04.03.17

Boxing For Survival in a Chinese Fight Club

Robert Foyle Hunwick

“I was supposed to be fighting some IT guy,” Bo Junhui groaned afterward. Instead, the 18-year-old student was up against someone a year older, ten pounds heavier, and a lot hungrier. Xia Tian has never worked behind a desk; he’d...

Photo Gallery
04.03.17

The Monster Fight Club

YiChen

“I was supposed to be fighting some IT guy,” Bo Junhui groaned afterward. Instead, the 18-year-old student was up against someone a year older, ten pounds heavier, and a lot hungrier. Xia Tian has never worked behind a desk; he’d...

Photo Gallery
12.30.14

Seeing China in 2014

David M. Barreda

In 2014, ChinaFile published great original work in photography. As always, we worked to look beyond stereotypical images of the country to find nuanced representations of the new and ChinaFile contributors’ commentary on it....

Sinica Podcast
10.03.14

Chinese Martial Arts

Jeremy Goldkorn, David Moser & more
from Sinica Podcast

This week on Sinica, Jeremy Goldkorn and David Moser are pleased to be joined by Sascha Matuszak, a Chengdu-based expert on Chinese martial arts and the producer of a new documentary on Chinese MMA (mixed martial arts), a competitive tournament...

The NYRB China Archive
10.25.13

Unhinged in China

Ian Johnson
from New York Review of Books

In one of the central scenes in Jia Zhangke’s new film, a young man working in the southern Chinese manufacturing city of Dongguan goes to an ATM and finds that he’s broke. He’s just spent the past month betraying his friends and hopping from job...

Media
06.27.13

Jackie Chan—The Young Master Comes of Age

Jaime Wolf

Once in a while, if you’re lucky, and paying the right kind of attention, events align to give you a clear view of the future. In 1995, I was in Los Angeles staying with a friend who produced independent films and had the trade magazines ...

Media
01.21.96

Jackie Chan, American Action Hero?

Jaime Wolf

Whenever Jackie Chan leaves Hong Kong to make a public appearance in Shanghai, Taipei or Tokyo, or in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore or Seoul, hundreds—sometimes thousands—of his fans gather in a frenzy of adoration. Last June, Chan, the martial artist...

The NYRB China Archive
09.24.92

Blazing Passions

Geoffrey O’Brien
from New York Review of Books

In a coincidence of programming in New York City a selection of the commercially most successful Hong Kong movies of the 1980s ran at the same time as a retrospective of work (some of it only marginally released in its country of origin) by the...