When I was a kid, nobody except us kids ever talked about sex. It was hush-hush at home. It was hush-hush in school. And it was most certainly hush-hush in church. The preacher not only didn’t talk ...

`Farewell My Concubine,” which shared the Cannes Grand Prize this year with “The Piano,” is an “art film” that’s also a huge, gorgeous, crowd-pleasing spectacle. Yet it’s about subjects you wouldn’t ...

The phrase “There, but for the Grace of God, Go I” was supposedly uttered by John Bradford in the sixteenth century, when he saw some prisoners on the way to being executed. It is a recognition that ...

Tell Me More: Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese film based on a book by the same name. Spanning about 40 years, the film centers around two men, Dieyi and Xialou, who meet in the early 1930s, ...

In the long dusk of the Book of Judges there is a sentence that feels like a bruise: “In those days there was no king; each man did what was right in his own eyes.” The tale of the concubine of Giv’ah ...

In my previous column, I wrote of the wide-ranging implications of concubinage in Korean history, up to the most recent times. Now I would like to follow up with a focus not on the concubines ...