On September 29, 2024, the USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a workshop at the Huntington’s Chinese garden, offering K-12 educators hands-on insights into using the garden as a teaching tool. With expert presentations, a guided tour, and new resources, the event explored how Chinese gardens' rich history and cultural significance can be integrated into classrooms. Interested in learning more? Click below for details on the workshop and upcoming programs for educators.
Screening: Mrs. K
Kara Wai plays a retired assassin now living comfortably as a housewife. When her past comes back to haunt her in the form of a former criminal associate (Simon Yam), Mrs. K must dust off her martial arts skills to dispatch a parade of baddies
When:
July 23, 2017 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Where
Kara Wai, a special guest at last year’s Made in Hong Kong Film Festival, is the star of this Tarantino-esque action movie. Director Ho Yuhang previously helped revive Wai’s career with the revenge drama At the End of Daybreak. In a “cracking return to the action-movie roots that propelled her to fame in the 1970s and 1980s” (Clarence Tsui, Hollywood Reporter), Wai plays a retired assassin now living comfortably as a housewife. When her past comes back to haunt her in the form of a former criminal associate (Simon Yam), Mrs. K must dust off her martial arts skills to dispatch a parade of baddies. “With its colorful cast, highly eventful plot and contrastingly rueful, often low-key tone, the film balances flamboyance and realism with tricky assurance” (Dennis Harvey, Variety). (Dir.: Ho Yuhang, Malyasia/Hong Kong, 2016, 97 min., DCP, Cantonese, Mandarin and Malay with [Chinese and] English subtitles)
Part of the series Twenty-Second Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
Cost:
Free
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