January 19, 2016 A Modern Musical Spin on an Ancient Chinese Folktale On January 13 at Asia Society in New York, Chinese artists Xi Ban and Pi Huang Club took the stage mixing classical Chinese instrumentation with Western form to accompany the film Sever, which puts a character from the ancient Chinese novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in a modern setting. The performance, titled Shanghai/New York: Future Histories 2, appealed to diverse audiences with its mix of the modern and traditional, as well as Chinese and American styles. Watch the performance Colorized Photos of Early 20th Century Japan The New York Public Library recently released 180,000 digitized images from its collection. In the second installment of Asia Blog’s look at photos from Asia within the cache, rare colorized postcards from Japan in the early 1900s amid the Meiji Restoration and Taisho period show everyday scenes of laborers, bustling city crowds, and young entertainers. View the photos The Rise of a “Green Movement” in China The documentary Waking the Green Tiger charts how China has pushed the boundaries of nature to harness hydropower since the Mao Zedong era, and follows a group of environmental activists trying to prevent the construction of dams on the country’s rivers. Directed by Gary Marcuse, the film is available to view online at ChinaFile through the end of January. Watch the film Upcoming Events Hong Kong: Malaysia from 2016 to 2020, 1/20 New York: Taiwan’s Post-Election Future, 1/21 San Francisco: Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Connecting China and the U.S., 1/21 Become a Member Donate Now           Asia Society 725 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 USA Copyright © 2016 Asia Society, All rights reserved.  www.asiasociety.org