#week 132

This week we bring you the works of @malmuses !

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Selected works by Tang Wei Min (唐伟民).

Tang Wei Min was born in Yong Zhou, Hunan Province in 1971. He graduated from the Art Department of Hunan Standard College, where he majored in Oil Painting in 1991. Since then he has worked as a professional oil painter.

Tang is inspired by remains - what lives, leaves, and is left behind thereafter. Many of Tang’s works depict beautiful, young women, yet their beauty is unfailingly ornamented - weighed down with the symbols of culture and tradition. The motif of cultural decoration appears to be rooted in Tang’s visit to the Mawangdui Museum in Changsha, China. There, he saw the tomb of a West Han Dynasty princess, and in it, a beautiful mummy, surrounded by finery and the trappings of wealth. According to Tang, her image sparked a revelation that “everything disappears with... death”, and “only the treasury... left is silently telling... [a] story”. Tang’s artistic portfolio is perhaps his own way of establishing the weight of existence - securing a legacy that will outlive him beyond the grave.

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Here is week 132, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

Stop the Train - rannonsolo7

Glowing in the dark - @Jilienemily

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

Everything Will Be Okay - Katie Lynn-98

Revolutionary - shiningcity aka @shining-city

Without A Toasting  - bodonibold aka @peetamymuse

Thank you @malmuses for letting us share your works this week!

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The Bloom is Not a Bloom (花非花) by Bai Juyi (白居易). Tang Dynasty. Translated by Mark Alexander.

Bai Juyi was a renowned poet and government official from the Mid-Tang period. Known for his short verses written in simple language, his poetry was based on observations of his daily life as a governor of three provinces.

Among his most famous works are the long narrative poems, Song of Everlasting Sorrow, telling the story of Yang Guifei, and The Song of The Pipa Player. Bai is one of the most widely read poets of the East and West, and was influential in the historical development of Japanese literature. 

The Joy Luck Club (喜福會) dir. Wayne Wang (王穎). 1993.

The Joy Luck Club is a film adaptation of the 1989 novel of the same name written by Amy Tan. It was directed by Hong-Kong American director Wayne Wang and starred Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita and Ming-Na Wen. Amy Tan also took part in the screenwriting process.

The Joy Luck Club is a heartwarming film of familial love that transcends cultural borders and concerns the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese-American immigrant mothers. It centres on four immigrant women in San Francisco who meet regularly at The Joy Luck Club to play mahjong, eat and share their life stories. The lives of these women and their daughters are influenced by the clashing of Chinese and American culture and the reveal of their hidden pasts. Together, they must understand and strengthen their family bonds to fight past obstacles in American life.