September Events
September 5, at 11AM & 2 PM
Shanghai Film
Series: Shanghai Today
Shanghai emerged in the 1920s as China’s first film capital and today hosts one of Asia’s largest annual film festivals. Showing today at the Asian Art Museum, at 11 AM: Shanghai Bride (2006), a documentary about Shanghai's increasingly materialistic and competitive marriage scene; 51 minutes, in Chinese with English subtitles. At 2 PM: Mr. Wong's World: Saving the Architectural Heritage of Shanghai (2008), about a wealthy Chinese businessman who returns from Canada and embarks on a mission to save old architecture from Shanghai's unpredecented building boom; 80 minutes, in Chinese with English subtitles. Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California-Irvine
professor of Chinese history and author of China in the 21st Century: What
Everyone Needs to Know, will introduce the films. A program of Target First Free Sunday.
At the Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St., San Francisco. Visit www.asianart.org or call 415-581-3500.
