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...When kids would say ‘Ching Chong Chinaman,’ I thought they were talking to someone behind me,” Tom said. “I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel...
...first challenge for you and your date: the opening three minutes from ?Chinese Torture Chamber Story,? featuring some of the ?most severe punishments of Ching Dynasty.? One man is strapped to a burning stake and his skin burned to a crispy, Mandarin Duck orange. Another is splayed upside down and castrated, his engorged genitals plopping into a cup as an official puckishly plants a white plume to mark the spot of the surgery. A third is guillotined at the waist, his top half still writhing after the severance. The last victim is buried to the neck, his scalp carved open...
...paper promoting the "new paradigm" of art as cultural capital. After years of favoring maths and sciences over cultural education, it seems the only way the government can view the arts is through that same quantitative prism: in Singapore, art apparently sounds like a cash register's ka-ching. "Singapore views culture as having economic value," says MITA's permanent secretary,Tan Chin...
...philosophy in search of a "spirituality" completely unencumbered by the spiky thorns of "religion." From the Zen masters embraced by the Beats of the '50s, to the Hindu holy men momentarily adopted by the Beatles in the '60s, to that quintessentially enigmatic Chinese mystic Lao Tzu?whose Tao Te Ching has been Americanized by even more translators in the past few years than Rumi's work has?the message most ardently sought by the West from these Eastern visionaries is ever the same: the divine is bigger than every vessel that seeks to hold it. But what too often gets...
...breathtakingly brave, Playing Madame Mao wrestles with dangerous topics by plunging into one of the most controversial periods of Singapore's past?the 1987 communist purge during which 22 people were imprisoned without trial for subversion by the Internal Security Department. Into this historical set piece Lau introduces Ching, the protagonist, an actress who plays Mao Zedong's wife, and her husband, Tang Na Juan, who is arrested for writing antigovernment articles. After being tortured in prison, Tang commits suicide...