{"id":8540,"date":"2016-08-24T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=8540"},"modified":"2016-08-24T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:40:15","slug":"ba-wang-bie-ji-farewell-my-concubine-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/ba-wang-bie-ji-farewell-my-concubine-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Ba wang bie ji (Farewell my Concubine) screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>Ba wang bie ji<\/strong> (<em><strong>Farewell my Concubine<\/strong><\/em>, Chen Kaige, China\/Hong Kong 1993, 157 min., 35mm, Mandarin w\/subtitles) as part of the <strong>Summer of Solidarity<\/strong> series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Life imitates art for a handful of characters in the Peking Opera who perform the title tragedy. Hong Kong pop star Leslie Cheung turns in an amazing performance as the concubine, a pained and jealous man unable to distinguish between male or female, reality or dream, and doomed never to achieve his one desire: his king's love. The makeup, costuming, and production design are immensely detailed in a film that spans fifty years of modern Chinese history. This astonishingly beautiful epic is one of the greatest films produced in China.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings\/farewell-my-concubine\">George Eastman Museum website<\/a>, 2016-Aug-22]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen Ba wang bie ji (Farewell my Concubine, Chen Kaige, China\/Hong Kong 1993, 157 min., 35mm, Mandarin w\/subtitles) as part of the Summer of Solidarity series. Life imitates art for a handful of characters in the Peking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/ba-wang-bie-ji-farewell-my-concubine-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3164],"class_list":["post-8540","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2016-aug-25","cat_jayceland-2016-aug-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8577,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/8540\/revisions\/8577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8540"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=8540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}