 Category : EntertainmentThe Inspired Island II: Multiflorate Splendour (2015) (Blu-ray + DVD + Book) (English Subtitled) (Taiwan Version)Price: USD26.99 The Inspired Island , a series of six documentaries about eminent Taiwan literary figures, drew great praise in 2011. The acclaimed series returns with seven more films about prominent Taiwan and Hong Kong writers in its second installment, The Inspired Island II . His Taipei People is one of the most iconic works of modern Chinese-language literature. His melancholic stories, including Crystal Boys , Love s Lone Flower and The Last Night of Madam Chin , are frequently adapted for film, television and theater. Directed by Teng Yung Shing ( Return Ticket ), Multiflorate Splendour profiles the extraordinary literary career of renowned Taiwan writer Kenneth Pai Hsien Yung. The film intersperses Peony Pavilion 's stream-of-consciousness style narration with Pai's life story, from founding a literary journal at the young age of 22 and teaching in Santa Barbara for over two decades, to his life-long efforts promoting the revival of Kunqu Opera and his recent works dedicated to his father, who was a general for the Kuomintang. This edition comes with the film on Blu-ray and DVD, a book about Kenneth Pai and 70 minutes of special features .Other products from YesAsia |