Jiwei Xiao

Jiwei Xiao is an associate professor teaching Chinese language and literature and world cinema at Fairfield University, Connecticut. Her writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, the Rocky Mountain Review, New Left Review, Cineaste and the Los Angeles Review of Books. (March 2020)

Facing a New Sinophobia

We have no effective testing kit for this pestilence as long as it lurks among us. It doesn’t manifest until it attacks people. Anti-Asian incidents around the globe spiked after the epidemic outbreak.

April 6, 2020

Diao Yinan’s ‘The Wild Goose Lake’

The story of Diao Yinan’s new film, The Wild Goose Lake, is simple, almost allegorical: a man of the underworld is thrust onto a perilous journey to death to redeem himself.

March 14, 2020

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