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Cathy Yan
Cathy Y. Yan is a Chinese-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Her films include the comedy-drama film '' Dead Pigs'' (2018) and ''Birds of Prey'' (2020), the eighth installment of the DC Extended Universe. Early life and education Yan was born in China and raised in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C. While her family was living in China, Yan's father was given a visa to study sociology in the U.S. Two years later her mother left for America, and Yan remained in China with her grandparents. At age four she was reunited with her parents in America. As a child, Yan grew up with various creative outlets courtesy of her relatives and "deeply creative father". By age 8, Yan was the kid carrying around a video camera, eager to express herself through art and through dancing as a choreographer. She moved to Hong Kong when she was fourteen years old, where she attended high school. She graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and Internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birds Of Prey (2020 Film)
''Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)'' (also known as ''Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey'', or simply ''Birds of Prey'') is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson, based on the DC Comics team the Birds of Prey. It is the eighth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and serves as a spin-off and sequel to ''Suicide Squad'' (2016). The film stars Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor. It follows Harley Quinn, who, after breaking up with the Joker, is threatened by Gotham City crime lord Roman Sionis and joins forces with Helena Bertinelli, Dinah Lance, and Renee Montoya (who form the Birds of Prey) to save Cassandra Cain. Robbie, who also served as producer, pitched the idea for ''Birds of Prey'' to Warner Bros. in 2015. The film was announced in May 2016, with Hods ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to most of its articles and content. The ''Journal'' is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. As of 2023, ''The'' ''Wall Street Journal'' is the List of newspapers in the United States, largest newspaper in the United States by print circulation, with 609,650 print subscribers. It has 3.17 million digital subscribers, the second-most in the nation after ''The New York Times''. The newspaper is one of the United States' Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. The first issue of the newspaper was published on July 8, 1889. The Editorial board at The Wall Street Journal, editorial page of the ''Journal'' is typically center-right in its positio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Khong
Rachel Khong (born 1985) is an American writer and editor based in Los Angeles as of 2021. Life Khong was born in Malaysia to a Malaysian Chinese family, but they soon moved to the United States when she was two. She grew up in Rancho Cucamonga, California and attended high school in nearby Diamond Bar, California. Khong attended Yale University and graduated with a degree in English in 2007. In 2011, she received her MFA from the University of Florida, where she studied with Padgett Powell. Khong is married to Eli Horowitz, co-creator of Gimlet's ''Homecoming'' podcast and former editor at McSweeney's. Career After completing her graduate degree, Khong moved to San Francisco and worked in the food service industry. She interned at McSweeney's while in college and edited cookbooks for them after graduating. In 2011, Chris Ying of '' Lucky Peach'', who Khong had met while interning at McSweeney's, asked her to be the managing editor of the magazine. She later went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sour Heart
''Sour Heart'' is a 2017 short story collection by Chinese American writer Jenny Zhang. Consisting of seven stories involving different Chinese families and their daughters, it was published by Lenny Books, Lena Dunham's Random House imprint. The short story collection was critically acclaimed and named a best book of the year by several publications. It went on to win the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Table of contents Background In ''The Brooklyn Rail'', Zhang stated that "there's a span of fourteen years between when I wrote the first story of this collection and when this collection came to exist in the final state that it’s in now." Many of her stories, about Chinese girls, were written during her time at Stanford University and subsequently the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with "The Evolution of My Brother" being written during her sophomore year at the former and then revised at the latte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
