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China Town
10 curated works.
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10 works selected across all media.
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Books that echo Chinatown
Books
The City & The City
Carries a strong pull into film through urban isolation and memory.
Books
To Live
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and East Asia.
Listening lane
Albums for China
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Music
Chinatown
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Music
China Town
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
Film
11 Flowers
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and memory.
Film
Chinatown
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Books · Strong bridge
To Live
1990s
One man's life through the upheavals of modern China. Civil war, famine, the Cultural Revolution — endurance as the only story.
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Music · Strong bridge
Chinatown
1980s
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Film · Strong bridge
Spring in a Small Town
1940s
A woman's old lover visits her ailing husband. Restraint and longing in postwar China.
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Books · Strong bridge
Soul Mountain
1990s
A journey through rural China as the self dissolves into landscape, memory, and storytelling. Nobel Prize in Literature, 2000.
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Music 1980s
China Town
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Film 2010s
Ash Is Purest White
A woman's loyalty tested across seventeen years of China's transformation.
Books 2000s
The City & The City
An extremely unhappy ten-year-old magically escapes into a city he has built out of books, chessmen, candlesticks, and other household items.
Film 2010s
11 Flowers
A boy in 1970s rural China witnesses a murder and keeps the secret. Wang Xiaoshuai's autobiographical coming-of-age set in the Cultural Revolution's aftermath.
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Music 2000s
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