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Free screenings feature 15 ASEAN films through March 25 Posted : 2021-03-12 16:39 Updated : 2021-03-12 16:46 ASEAN Culture House (ACH) is hosting its second ASEAN Cinema Week from March 12 to 25, following the first one in 2019 to celebrate the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit in Busan. Courtesy of ACH By Yi Whan-woo The ASEAN Culture House (ACH) is hosting screenings of 15 ASEAN films from March 12 to 25. Titled 2021 ASEAN Cinema Week ― On: Tact, the two-week event is the second of its kind. The previous one was held in 2019 to mark the ASEAN-Republic of Korea Commemorative Summit. Back then, the screenings were held as part of efforts to bolster cultural exchanges between the two sides ― a goal of the Korea Foundation, a government-affiliated public diplomacy organization that manages the ACH. ....
by Hilary Spurling This article was first published in the October 14, 2010 issue of The announcement by the Swedish Academy in November 1938 that Pearl Buck had been awarded the Nobel Prize for literature was met with sarcasm and even derision by many writers and critics. They were not impressed that this was the third choice by the academy of an American writer in a mere eight years the first being Sinclair Lewis in 1930, the second Eugene O’Neill in 1936. Pearl Buck had dedicated her writing life to novels and memoirs about China, and her selection was seen as a sop to public opinion, in a world where Japanese and German war scares were becoming a reality and China was a prime victim. ....