Dorothy Arzner has long provided the paradigm for subversive feminist filmmaking and the inspiration for a number of key questions concerning the (in)visibility and agency of female filmmakers in 20th century Hollywood. However, as S. Louisa Wei’s documentary Golden Gate Girls (2013) reveals, Arzner’s contemporary Esther Eng, a Chinese-American, openly-lesbian director, producer, and distributor working in Hong Kong, San Francisco, and New York, offers a new paradigm for worl

Chinese artist Shi Kai (center) presents his artwork to Jim Cheng (right), director of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, at Columbia University's Faculty House on Tuesday in New York. Inspired by the Chinese hexagram and seal-cutting style, Shi created the painting illustrating Columbia University's motto In Thy Light Shall We See Light. Along with the painting, Shi brought his new book Contemporary Deconstructive Analysis of Journey to the West, and offered his interpretati