Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
"Parking" (Taiwan, 2008), Cine-East: East Asian Cinema, Classics of Taiwan Series
Duke University will host a screening of "Parking", a dark Taipei drama.
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On Mother’s Day in Taipei, Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) makes a dinner date with his wife (Kwai Lun-mei), hoping to improve their estranged relationship. While buying a cake on his way home, a car double-parks next to his, preventing his exit. For the entire night, Chen-Mo searches for the owner of the car and encounters a succession of strange events and eccentric characters: an old couple living with their precocious granddaughter who have lost their only son; a one-armed barbershop owner cooking fish-head soup; a mainland Chinese prostitute trying to escape her pimp’s cruel clutches; and a Hong-Kong tailor embroiled in debt and captured by underground loan sharks.
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David Zweig examines China's talent recruitment efforts, particularly towards those scientists and engineers who left China for further study. U.S. universities, labs and companies have long brought in talent from China. Are such people still welcome?