List of Culture articles
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Chinese actress Gong Li attends the opening night gala during the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 11, 2016 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Pool/Getty Images) Taiwanese Filmmakers Can’t Escape Beijing’s Grip
The market's in the mainland, but the freedom to create is in Taiwan.
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(Penguin Lab illustration) China’s Pop Idols Are Too Soft for the Party
Stars like Luhan are huge with fans but sit uncomfortably with macho ambitions.
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Lim Zheng Jie Wo, 76, scavenges in a back lane of the financial district in Singapore on January 5, 2009. (ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images) Hollywood Has No Time for Crazy Poor Asians
Asian-American politics don't translate on screen into sensitivity to Singapore's real issues.
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The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem on June 28. (Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty Images) ‘It Could Have Led to a Nuclear War in the Middle East’
On the podcast: When Israeli extremists plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock.
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The graffiti artist Chris Shim, aka Royyal Dog, makes multiculturalism the focus of a series of murals in his home city of Seoul, including this one in an alley, and around the world. (Jun Michael Park for Foreign Policy) South Koreans Learn to Love the Other
How to manufacture multiculturalism.
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Lior Raz, right, and Doron Ben-David play undercover Israeli operatives in Fauda, now available on Netflix. (Netflix) The Occupation as Entertainment
The second season of the acclaimed TV thriller “Fauda” obscures the dark realities of Israeli rule in the West Bank.
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The Double Pigeon. (Courtesy SFO Museum) 1 Billion People. 100,000 Characters. 1 Typewriter.
The machine that changed a language forever.
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French writer, journalist and movie producer Claude Lanzmann poses in Paris on Feb. 11, 2016. (Joel Saget / AFP) The Holocaust Existentialist
Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, dead at 92, showed the world the Holocaust through eyewitnesses.
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Apps for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social networks on a smartphone in the Indian capital New Delhi. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP/Getty Images) Tech Companies Are Ruining America’s Image
The United States has become identified with the global internet economy — for better and worse.
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A scene from "Babylon Berlin," now streaming on Netflix. (Beta Film) German TV Is Sanitizing History
A new wave of historical dramas is telling the wrong stories about the country’s past.
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Foto, Michael Melo The Right to Kill
Should Brazil keep its Amazon tribes from taking the lives of their children?
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Afrofuturism is primarily thought of as an aesthetic. But it’s also a new way of looking at both history and the future. (Marvel Studios) Wakanda Shakes the World
What does it mean for an African nation to lead the global future?
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Iron Man and Captain America X. (Marvel Studios) The Avengers at a Crossroads: Assessing Prospects for New Strategic Challenges and Opportunities
For the world’s premier superpowers to better confront new international threats, fresh strategic initiatives are needed in a challenging era.
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A still from "The Death of Stalin." (IFC Films) Giggling at the Gulag
"The Death of Stalin" turns tyranny into comedy.
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The Young Karl Marx. (Frederic Batier/Agat Film/Velvet Film) How to Make Karl Marx Sexy
The philosophy of economics doesn’t make for a good movie. It gets easier if you drop the philosophy and the economics.
