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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the entire operation might soon be underwater

The fanfare that opens Goodbye, Dragon Inn is followed by a comedown crash. The prologue gives us a vision of the Fu-Ho in its heyday, but immediately afterwards we encounter a Fu-Ho that’s anything but Grand. It’s just another underpopulated declining urban theatre on the eve of a ‘Temporary Closi…

—p.57 Goodbye, Dragon Inn Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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these yearnings exist within a larger yearning

[...] these yearnings exist within a larger yearning. Their unquenched desire echoes Tsai's own desire for the popular cinema of his youth - and not just the movies, but everything that goes along with them: the big neighborhood cinemas, the communal culture of family moviegoing, the family itself,…

—p.54 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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succor

the Japanese tourist, wandering the Fu-Ho in search of succour or maybe just a suck

lol

—p.54 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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residents of these cosmopolite refugee territories

At this moment, it was these Pacific Rim filmmakers from territories in what has sometimes been referred to as Greater China - here, Tsai and Yang's Taiwan and Wong's Hong Kong - who seemed poised most precisely and precariously on the edge of contemporaneity, who seemed best situated to explain wh…

—p.33 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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samizdat

the films of Wang Bing, many of them durational epics, frequently shown abroad in a gallery context and seen in his native China mostly on circulated samizdat-style files

—p.24 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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