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- Nov 07, 2020
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- 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