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...SHANGHAI With China's largest banknote only 100 yuan ($13), shoppers turn to this roomy Salvatore Ferragamo wallet...
This TIME Style & Design poll of 411 affluent Chinese respondents was conducted through personal interviews in June 2007 by GfK Roper at 54 different locations in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou, including upscale shopping malls, boutiques, hotels, luxury-car dealerships and fitness clubs. Respondents made at least 15,000 yuan a month. The margin of error...
...SHANGHAI SURPRISE...
...come to these festive cities to be transported to other places, other sensibilities. In Lust, Caution it's Shanghai, 1942, where four Chinese ladies in the home of Mrs. Yee (Joan Chen) are deep in those twin devious pleasures, mahjong and gossip. What three of them don't know is that the fourth, Mak Tai Tai (Tang Wei), is embarking on an affair with Mrs. Yee's husband (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a high-level government official collaborating with the occupying Japanese. Indeed, her name is not Mak Tai Tai but Wang Chia Chih, an operative of the underground Resistance...
...Freon-cool, and as ruthless in bed as in interrogating a Resistance suspect. As for the previously unknown Tang Wei, she's not a big-eyed cutie like those three-China favorites Faye Wong or Vicky Zhao Wei. She's more in the fashion of the sour beauties of Shanghai's film and music scene in the 40s. Her style and sensuality have to be discovered, peeled off layer by layer, as Yee does to Wang in the movie...