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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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