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Our Prof Pick Series continues with the iconic Ang Lee movie CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON. Professor Jiayanh Mi from the College of NJ will introduce this screening and lead a discussion after the film. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀: princetongardentheatre.org/specials𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲:Director Ang Lee crafts this wild and deeply romantic martial arts spectacular starring Michelle Yeoh and Chow Yun-Fat as two star-crossed, 19th century warriors tasked with retrieving a stolen sword. Their search leads to the House of Yu, where their paths cross with a young aristocrat possessing superior fighting skills. CROUCHING TIGER is an expertly crafted mix of beautiful scenery, tasteful drama, and dazzling battles. In Mandarin and Chinese w/ subtitles.
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿: Jiayanh Mi holds a second Ph.D. degree in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the University of California, Davis (2002). He is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department and the Department of World Languages and Cultures at The College of New Jersey.
His academic research spans modern poetry from East and West, film and visual studies, cultural criticism theory, science fiction and cyberculture, as well as Asian-American diaspora literature and eco-culture. He has published dozens of scholarly articles in both Chinese and English and is currently working on an English monograph titled Heteroscape: Reimagining Aquapoetics in Modern Chinese Literature, Painting, and Film as well as a Chinese-English bilingual poetry collection, The Wormhole Rose.
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