Word: kuan
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...concubine?or have one." The Chairman's Chrysanthemum Suite is modeled on Mao's library and bedroom, where he received most of his visitors. The bookshelf above the antique bed is stacked with the Great Helmsman's favorites: Sun Tzu's The Art of War, Lo Kuan-chung's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Karl Marx's Das Kapital and several treatises on Chinese political philosophy. Instead of a Bible on the bedside table, there is a stack of Little Red Books. Photographs of Mao's various wives and mistresses adorn the coffee table. And, yes, there is even...
...every one of the first ten chosen is choice. Significant stretches of The Warlord and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star prove that Hong Kong comedy is a taste that can sour over time. The Teahouse (1974), with martial arts whiz Chen Kuan-tai doing little kicking but lots of glowering as a feisty restaurateur, makes a provocative political statement?that the local judiciary coddles young criminals?in a dawdling, slapdash manner...
...fine for holding a May 1 rally without a police permit; in Singapore. Chee's application for a permit had been rejected on the grounds that the rally would threaten law and order. It is the third trip to jail for Chee, who Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew has called a "congenital liar" and a "political gangster...
...most fascinating denizens is "the Chairman," the fictional leader of the Singaporean government during the 1980s, who sometimes changes form to become Mao, father of Chinese communism. While the author never mentions him directly, "the Chairman" appears to be a thinly veiled stand-in for elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew, the Lion City's Prime Minister during the communist purge. Given the Singaporean government's traditional intolerance of critics, it's no surprise Lau has chosen not to introduce Lee as a historical figure in the novel. Instead, she creates a fantasy world that parodies the government's patriarchal policies...
...Siang. (Though Mahathir had multiple-bypass surgery a decade ago, his health is robust for a 76-year-old.) But neither, it seems, does he wish to go because he feels he has accomplished enough and that it's time for younger leaders to take over?as Lee Kuan Yew believed. Mahathir modernized the economy, enabled Malaysia to gain international respect, and gave Asia a voice in the global arena. But after decades of championing the indigenous Malay cause at home, Mahathir has become disillusioned. The Malays, he said during the UMNO assembly, "are lazy and like to find...