Tag: China

“Fairies in China”

At Snow Pavilion, Xueting Ni writes about how Chinese Xian became fairies in European thought. “The modern idea of the fairy, buzzing round the bottom of your garden on butterfly wings, dressed in couture petals, you know, that Victorian and Edwardian creation, aligned historically with this increased interest […]

Midnight Madness 2024 Line-up!

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival starts this week on September 5. Check out the line-up for this year’s Midnight Madness program and make your genre film plans accordingly! See it here. Make sure to click through here for Midnight Madness Programmer Peter Kuplowsky’s video about this year’s […]

Midnight Madness 2024!

The Gutter’s own Sachin Hingoo looks at this year’s Midnight Madness line-up at the Toronto International Film Festival! “Coming in hot from Toronto is the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2024 Midnight Madness Programme. This lineup, as it does every year, features the hottest talent in […]

A Cross-Section of Kowloon Walled City!

Colossal has an intricate illustration of Kowloon Walled City before it was destroyed in 1994 drawn by Hitomi Terasawa. “For a now out-of-print book titled Kowloon City: An Illustrated Guide, artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of the urban phenomenon to preserve its memory. The massive panorama […]

Summer Fun Time Reading ’24

Summertime and the living is far from easy, but hopefully it can be easier with these summer fun time (and winter fun time, for our antipodean friends) reading suggestions including horror, fantasy, thrills, chills, adventure, mystery, crime and wisdom from the most advanced civilization on Earth. There are […]