Movies
A striking image in the Academy Award-sweeping epic “The Last Emperor” occurs amid the fairy-tale pomp of the Forbidden City, when a bespectacled Chinese tutor gives a cricket in a jar to Henry Pu Yi, boy emperor without an empire.
April 15, 1988
California
Man gets 25 years in missile-smuggling case
May 10, 2011
World & Nation
Government says top suspect killed himself days after last year’s attack on the president.
March 8, 2005
Entertainment & Arts
The symphony presents ‘China Alive!’
Feb. 20, 1997
The images depicted by Chinese emigrant artists Gao Xiao-hua and Chen Qiang are worlds away from Laguna Beach, where their works are being featured in the Festival of Arts that opened Friday.
July 11, 1987
Yo-Yo Ma will perform the premiere of a cello concerto by Chen Yi as part of the Pacific Symphony’s annual “American Composers Festival,” Feb. 28-March 21, in several Orange County venues.
Nov. 21, 2003
Steven Jian Chen Artist, Cypress Chinese-born artist Steven Jian Chen has long been able to “express his soul” by creating in the freehand style, or “Xie-Yi,” of traditional Chinese painting.
Oct. 6, 1995
When Helen Ho Bottorff of Rancho Palos Verdes saw the Academy Award-sweeping “The Last Emperor,” she was particularly taken by the scene in which royal tutor Chen Bao Shen presents the boy ruler with a cricket in a jar.
The most fascinating part of the local debut by the Central Philharmonic of China, Thursday night in Ambassador Auditorium, Pasadena, was the opening work on the program.
Nov. 7, 1987
Archives
Teaming Master Ren Guang-Yi with friend and disciple Lou Reed on the exercise DVD “Chen Taijiquan” would seem like an inspired idea -- injecting a hefty dose of iconoclastic star power into the standard-formula exercise tape.
Feb. 19, 2007