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...Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet is slimmer, more anecdotal, but has the same theme: the sacrifices that old-fashioned parents and modern kids make for one another. Handsome, Taiwan-born Wai-tung (Winston Chao) is doing well in Manhattan real estate and has a loving lover, Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). But his parents back home -- the General (Sihung Lung) and Mrs. Gao (Ah-leh Gua) -- urgently want a grandchild. How do you arrange a marriage if your son is gay? Not so hard, if he doesn't tell you. Easier still, if he arranges it himself, after Simon suggests that...
...there are two, three, many Asian-style films. Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet -- an ingratiating comedy-drama about a gay Taiwanese man in New York City who gets married to please his parents -- has grossed $1 million in its first month of specialized release. This week the Toronto Film Festival opens with M. Butterfly, David Cronenberg's film of the David Henry Hwang play about a tryst between a French diplomat (Jeremy Irons) and a Chinese man (John Lone) whom he believes to be a woman; it opens commercially Oct. 1. This Wednesday, Wayne Wang's lovely...
Same Texts, Different Contexts: Japanese Uses of the K'ang-hsi Emperor's Teachings, 1721-1943--by De-Min Tao, postdoctoral fellow, Reischauer Institute. Coolidge Hall, room 2, 4 p.m. Come and gain the secrets of Japanese economic dominance...
Reischauer's contributions to his field include his most recent books: The Japanese Today: Change and Community (1988) and My Life Between Japan and America: Memoirs (1986). He also wrote a history of Japan and two detailed studies of the T'ang Dynasty in China. He has authored several books on U.S. policy including Toward the Twenty-First Century: Education for a Changing World (1973); Beyond Vietnam: The United States and Asia (1967) and Wanted: An Asian Policy...
...doctor, I feel one should go where one is needed," says Dr. Swee Ang, 40, a physician from Singapore who was working at the Sabra refugee camp for Palestinians in Beirut at the time of the 1982 massacre by Phalangist militiamen. After surviving the ordeal, she returned to Britain to marshal support for the Palestinians before resuming work at Bourj al-Barajneh, another refugee camp in Beirut. "I'd seen how the Palestinians had suffered," she says, "and to abandon them after that and not do something would have been a crime...