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- Paris
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter our background, we all have crazy families.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in New York City for over twenty years now, and every single day is like a new adventure. At this point, there are many places I'd love to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else on the planet.
- Become
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- Nov 07, 2020
Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Old money in Southeast Asia is much more discrete and low key. It's about not wearing brand names. It's about being invisible, almost. The billionaire can be taking the bus with you.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
All Americans knew was 'The Joy Luck Club' and children of dry cleaners trying to assimilate. The Asia that I was seeing was a world of people who are incredibly sophisticated, and I wanted to represent that side.
- Asian
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I met a Shanghai photographer who finds these old streets and matches the French names to what they are today. I was able to find my grandfather's block, and just walking the same streets and finding his house was deeply moving. I finally felt connected to China.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the people who live the lives of 'Crazy Rich Asians' don't see the humour of their lives simply because this is just who they are. Even though I'm from that part of the world, I'm no longer part of that world.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents were far more English in their manners than they were Chinese. For example, we spoke English at home, had afternoon tea every day, and my grandfather, who attended university in Scotland, would smoke his pipe after dinner.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much emphasis on the economic might of China, of Southeast Asia, Asian 'Super Tigers' and things like that. But nobody was really looking from the perspective of a family story, of these individuals.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be, on TV, you'd see only two types of Asians. You'd see the science geek who's using his mobile phone or something like that, or you'd see a very token Asian family - yuppie mother and father and two little Asian kids. It's the last barrier for Hollywood.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not normal to go into a house and see a pond in the middle of the living room full of baby sharks. It's not normal to go to someone's garage and see a private plane.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother likes to say that I was conceived to shop - not just born to shop. My whole life as a child was following her and her sister and friends around on her shopping trips.
- Caught
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
- Destinations
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- Nov 07, 2020
In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything with my own eyes, so yes, I was able to visit some remarkable houses and destinations while I was in China.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in the West, you see how there's only two versions of how Asian men are supposed to be. Either they're very nice, yuppie husbands with children in ads, or they're IT geeks.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Singapore, I wasn't allowed to visit China. So when I was finally able to go there after the country began opening up to tourism in the 1990s, I found it to be utterly astounding.
- Edwardian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
- Elbows
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place that is transforming at warp speed into the richest country on the planet.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.
- Clad
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a child, I could bike down the hill from my house and grab an ice-cold bottle of soda from the neighborhood grocer, which was nothing more than a corrugated metal shack run by two Indian men clad in sarongs.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know an elderly society matron in Singapore who would rather walk in the scorching sun for blocks on end rather than have her chauffeur drive into the Central Business District at peak hour and pay the $1.50 surcharge.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing to keep in mind is the incredible diversity of talent that's out there - there are so many great actors from all over Asia, from Singapore and Hong Kong to the Philippines and Mainland China, not to mention many great Asian-American actors who are eager for fun and challenging roles.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Such huge money has been made in China - it can be hundreds of millions in a year - and there's a need to validate it by showing what they can buy and how much of it.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from an old establishment family from Singapore.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember I had an aunt that lived in a house that had this beautiful ceramic wall that was entirely a painting of a peacock.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every family is a crazy family.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my first novel, 'Crazy Rich Asians,' was published in 2013, many readers were astonished to learn that in Asia, there were women who dressed in couture from morning till night.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Couture occupies the uppermost stratosphere of fashion. It is the holy of holies, as only about 2,000 women globally are fortunate enough to wear these precious garments tailored to their exact measurements, making it perhaps the most exclusive club in the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are often disappointed when they meet me because I'm not this giant, flamboyant - you know, I don't wear sequined jackets.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a writer. I'm naturally introverted, so being the public face of something, I don't think I do it well.
- Photographic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a photographic memory.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020