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...CHIANG KAI-SHEK 1937 Reigning in a China beset by Japan and civil strife...
...status of Taiwan, an island province which became the Republic of China after Communist victories drove Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government there in 1949, was one of the over riding issues surrounding Jiang's speech...
...While I was writing my thesis, I also worked as a freelance journalist." Di Cosmo says. "One day, a Chinese director I interviewed drafted me to be in his film, Xi-An Incident, where Chiang Kaishek is kidnapped. I played an American military officer who was invited to a ball. I had to learn how to waltz for the scene, but then again, I got to dance with a very attractive actress...
...engineering studies at Shanghai's Jiaotong University. In what was then China's naughtiest and most revolutionary-minded city, he discovered Benny Goodman and English films as well as communist politics. He joined the party at the age of 19, and once had to escape the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek by hiding in the trunk of his university president...
...slip further, into the bright, white bald-headed life of THX-1138 (1970), George Lucas' art-house sci-fi first feature, expanded from a student film he did at USC. Robert Duvall stars with Donald Pleasance (an easy bit of casting); look for cameos by Yul Brynner and Chiang Kai-Shek. Imagine a world of naked sadism, prescription drugs and robot policemen ? where the only erotic words are "no one is watching," and everyone really is. Imagine a bleak, bleached future in which "sexual perversion" (in this case, just regular sex) was a punishable crime...