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...more than half a century, Beijing has branded Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo who ruled China for two decades, as an enemy of the people, heading a feudal, despotic regime that was swept away by the tide of historical inevitability in the communist victory of 1949. But now, 28 years after his death in Taiwan, the administration he headed on the mainland seems strangely familiar and relevant to the future of the world's most populous nation...
...real people. The film is not easy to pin down with a plot summary or character descriptions; suffice it to say that it deals with issues of mourning, loneliness and alienation. Lee is a watch vendor fixated by a woman he meets briefly (and played extraordinarily realistically by Chiang Shiang-Chyi); she is on her way to Paris and wants to buy the watch off his wrist...
...drops of distilled reality, like the way in which Lee idly swings an alleged “unbreakable” watch against a railing to test it, or the way in Chiang shyly tries to order food in a Parisian cafe as crushingly happy French patrons carouse all around her, are made more significant by the way in which they resonate with real life. These are not jokes written for the approval of a laugh track; they are humorous glimpses into the myriad illogical ways in which we behave...
...When Boonma left his native Chiang Rai province on a bicycle in 1956, he was a 25-year-old with a new medical degree and a broken heart. A few weeks later he found himself in Thailand's wild west, and quickly realized his woes were nothing compared with the hardscrabble existence of the Karen, Mon and other tribes. So he began tramping from village to village, dispensing medicine and medical advice...
...emergency room on May 12. That rocked the confidence of a populace that had previously been willing to believe that everything was under control. "When I heard the reports about what happened in NTU I felt the situation was more serious than the government was telling us," says Elaine Chiang, 25, a shop assistant in Taipei. "I haven't taken my mask off since...