Strange Horizons
In December of 2017, The Wind Blows in Chang Lin, the sequel to Nirvana in Fire, or Lángyá Bǎng, began airing in China. Though it is probable that many readers of this site were completely unaware of the event, it was without exaggeration one of the most anticipated releases in the world. The original Nirvana in Fire had, after all, been an incredible success both as an online serial novel and as a 2015 television series, “surpassing ten million views by its second day, and receiving a total number of daily internet views on iQiyi of over 3.3 billion by the end of the series. Nirvana in Fire was considered a social media phenomenon, generating 3.55 billion posts on Sina Weibo that praised its characters and story-line. As of December 2016, it has a total view of 13 billion views as reported by VLinkage.” [1]
At the end of a rollicking production of William Shakespeare’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Tim Robbins and staged in China in June by the Los Angeles-based Actors’ Gang the director and actors returned to the stage for a dialogue with the Beijing audience.
The questions ran the normal gamut from accents to costumes to staging, and then one woman asked which Shakespeare the Gang planned to perform next. The affable Robbins turned the question around, asking what she would like to see.
“Macbeth,” came the answer.
Oberon (played by Pierre Adeli) in a performace of
A Midsummer Night s Dream, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, June 10, 2014.
this book is about an hour and 15 minutes. did after nine welcome to the hudson institution new york book forum to celebrate the publication of escape from north korea: the untold story of asia s underground railroad. by senior fellow, melanie kirkpatrick. i am ken weinstein, president and ceo of hudson institute and i also like to welcome our audience watching at home on booktv and i also want to especially thank our friends at c-span for covering today s event. there are a couple of guests present today whom i would like to acknowledge. the council general of south korea in new york, ambassador song at who is here. [applause] and i d also like to knowledge the president said the japanese deputy counsel general in new york. [applause] in addition it also like to note the presence of several hudson institute trustees, vice chair and jack david who is a special interest in this book as he was the first person to read it and is married to the author. and we are grateful for