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PocketEssentials again, published in the U.K. in 2000 and released here late last year. A compilation of interviews, articles, and reviews about Hong Kong’s “gangster gun operas” [as opposed to the traditional kung fu/martial arts films]. Highlighted filmmakers include John Woo (now working predominantly State-side), Ringo Lam and Wong Kar-Wai.

Review: “Diasporic Proliferation or: We’re Here, There and Everywhere … and Growing,” Push >, NAATA: National Asian American Telecommunications Center (now the Center for Asian American Media), 2002

Readers: Adult

Published: 2001 (United States)