#Paul China

[staypuffedx]

phoebe tonkin in night shift (2023) dir. benjamin china & paul china

[soraskyecinema]

Night Shift // Benjamin China & Paul China // 2023

[gebo4482]

Night Shift | Official Trailer

Dir: Benjamin China / Paul China Star: Phoebe Tonkin / Madison Hu / Lamorne Morris

[mikesfilmtalk]

Night Shift: Old Fashioned Scary

The 2023 production of Night Shift is old fashioned scary and, up to a point, blackly comic. Although to be fair there are some outright funny moments in this fledgling film. Directed by the China Bros, this deserves a much better rating than offered on IMDb. Although Rotten Tomatoes gave this one a 76% critic ranking. Night Shift also has a pretty splendid twist hidden in the tale. The…

[jayblanc]

Chinese Censorship of the 2023 Hugo Award Nominations

Back before the 2023 Hugo Nominations were conducted, I noted that the Chengdu Worldcon Hugo committee had inserted a worrying clause indicating that local government officials could invalidate nominations for breaching the norms and standards of China. I suspected this would result in arbitrarily applied censorship to control the ballot. I am sad and unsurprised to discover I was correct.

The 2023 Hugo Nomination vote data has been published (https://www.thehugoawards.org/2024/01/2023-nominating-and-final-ballot-statistics-published/), and includes notation where nominations were excluded from the ballot. Those with normal reasons, such as being in the wrong category or not being published in 2022 are identified with their reasons for exclusion. This time there are a number of nominations that are merely marked at "Not eligible".

Here is the list of those nominations, that would otherwise have been placed on the final 2023 Hugo Award Ballot.

Babel - R.F. Kuang - Best Novel: Very likely excluded for referencing student revolution, and the use of language and translation as coercive tools of oppression. Color the World - Congyun "Mu Ming" Hu - Best Novellette : A story about perception of, aid of, and discrimination against disability. Congyun Hu has left China and now lives in New York. Fogong Temple Padoga - Hai Ya - Best Story : Either there is something in the original Chinese that was not translated, there's a taboo subject that elides my reading, or this otherwise innocent looking near future tale of cultural building restoration was written by the wrong person. The Art of Ghost of Tsushima: Dark Horse and Sucker Punch Games - Best Related Work : The video game Ghost of Tsushima was subject to directed social exclusion for it's depiction of the Mongol invasion of Japan. Sandman, Amazon Studios: Best Dramatic Presentation (Long and Short) - A diverse and divergent cast, includes subject matter and social issues that are currently taboo in China. Paul Weimer - Fan Writer: Publicly Critical of holding a Worldcon in China. Xiran Jay Zhao - Astounding Award: Qualifying work "Iron Widow" is reimagined story of Chinese Empress Wu during a fantasy/mechanical alien invasion.

This raises a lot of questions as to if this basically taints the process, and what can be done about it.

[fromthedust]

portrayals of bats before 1800:

Bat pendant - jade - China - Shang Dynasty - c.1600-1046 BCE Mastiff Bat Vessel - Moche culture of Peru - 200-850 Codex-style cylinder vase with bat holding plate of body parts - Mayan - c.680-750 The Bat God - terra cotta - Tezoquipan - Aztec - c.700 Bat - Aztec Bat - Aztec Bat - from the Aberdeen Bestiary - England - c. 1200 Bats - from De Natura animalium - Cambrai - c. 1270 Bat - from Pabenham-Clifford Book of Hours - England - c. 1315-1320 Albrecht Durer (German, 1471-1528) - Bat with outstretched wings, and another with wings folded - 15-16th century Albrecht Durer (German, 1471-1528) - stylized bat from Melencolia I - print - 1514 Pieter Boel (Flemish, 1622-1674) - Five Bats - 17th century The Batt - from 'A Description of a Great Variety of Animals and Vegetables' - edited by Thomas Boreman - 1736 bat-shaped vessel - ceramic - China - Qing Dynasty, 1736-95 bats flying over waves - porcelain bowl - China - Yongzheng period (1722-35) Pierre-Paul Barraband (French, 1767-1809) - Bat - 1793 Pierre-Paul Barraband (French, 1767-1809) - Bat - 1794

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[figureskatingcostumes]

Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier's free dance costumes at the 2023 Cup of China, 2023 Grand Prix Final and 2023 Skate Canada. They skating to Ryuichi Sakamoto's Wuthering Heights.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3 and 4)

[safije]

Altın Altay | Oil Pastel on Paper

[batcavescolony]

X-Factor #6

David never change. It's for science Jean-Paul! Let him study rotting corpses of his fellow mutants on the lawn! It could be so much worse, he could be nuking china.

[ladymiraclewings]

I think that is so funny how each members of the Wild Team appear succefully in different Super Wings media.

Like Mira appeared only in the Culture China sub-serie, then she's with Wily in the movie. And then Swampy is with them and they will appear for a future episode of s8b.

[venusimleder]

Vogue China, January 2007.

“Renaissance”

Ph. Pierluigi Macor

[mariocki]

The China Syndrome (1979)

"I may be wrong, but I'd say you're lucky to be alive. For that matter, I think we might say the same for the rest of Southern California."

[aavalon2]

giedre dukauskaite by paul wetherell for vogue china october 2018

[panicinthestudio]

Further reading:

HKFP: Explainer: How, and why, the gov’t banned protest song ‘Glory to Hong Kong’, May 17, 2024

[paul-transportlifemashup]

Watch video Super Wings: Look At China [超级飞侠:看中国]

on YouTube: https://youtu.be/TpFpb0kjRH8

List of 12 short episodes:

EP01: Ancient Sport (古老的运动) EP02: The Power Of Kung Fu (功夫的力量) EP03: Delicious Ramen (美味的拉面) EP04: Little Kong Mingsuo Great Wisdom (小孔明锁大智慧) EP05: Tofu Can't Be Judged By It's Appearance (豆腐不可貌相) EP06: Good Expectations (美好的期待) EP07: The Deliciousness Of Pineapple Cake (凤梨酥的美味) EP08: Riding And Counting Sheep (骑马和数羊) EP09: Thirst Quenching Herbal Tea (解渴的凉茶) EP10: Beautiful Shadow Puppetry (美美的皮影戏) EP11: Bamboo Shoots Are Also Delicious (竹笋也美味) EP12: I Love You China (我爱你中国)

A character that appears in all short episodes: EP01 Jett EP02 Jett EP03 Paul & Jerome EP04 Jett EP05 Donnie & Grand Albert EP06 Jett EP07 Grand Albert EP08 Jett EP09 Dizzy EP10 Jett EP11 Astra & Astro EP12 Jett, Dizzy, Donnie, Paul, Jerome, Grand Albert