Category: Gallery

• Terrible or Great? Hand-painted Chinese Movie Billboards

  

  Recently, I wrote a guest post for She Reads about how, when I was a little girl, my grandmother lived in a small town in Malaysia opposite a cinema which showed scary Chinese movies. We children were not allowed to go and watch them, although from the front window we could see people lining up…

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  September 27, 2013

  Eat + Read, Gallery, The Ghost Bride

  A Chinese Ghost Story, Anita Mui, Cherie Chung, Chinese movies, Chow Yun Fat, Do Do Cheng, hand painted billboards, historic movies, Hong Kong movies, kung fu movies, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Nostalgia, Rouge

• Paper Offerings (1)

  

  A few months ago, I was in Singapore around the time of the Hungry Ghost Festival. This is when paper offerings are burned for the dead to use, the nearest approximation being a Chinese version of the Egyptian afterlife.

  yangszechoo

  January 7, 2013

  Gallery