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...full minute. Then he gets up, goes outside and returns to his nothingness at the table. Four minutes. And that's the last we see of him; he dies, off camera, soon after. We're then introduced to his son, Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-sheng), who sells watches in Taipei. Days after his father's death a young woman, Shiang-chyi (Chen Shiang-chyi), buys a dual-time watch from him before she leaves for Paris. Hsiao-kang is disturbed that his mother (Lu Yi-ching) has responded to her husband's death by praying for his return, leaving food...
...frame is filled by a Chinese man who fishes out the case with an umbrella, stands it by the pond and walks away. Is this a case full of Hsiao-kang's fantasies, or a wake-up call to Shiang-chyi to pack her bags and return to Taipei? As patient as a century, Tsai's canvas in What Time deserves its own gallery...
...CHANG HSUEH-LIANG only once in Taipei, at the home of Chiang Kai-Shek's chief of staff. At that hour-long meeting, Chang remained silent?and he kept silent until the day he died. The "Young Marshal" remains a tragic and elusive figure in modern Chinese history. Even after he was released from house arrest in Taiwan, Chang declined to write his memoirs. He also disappointed his former comrades when he refused to visit northeast China, where they had established a museum in his honor and maintained his former home. Instead, he spent his time studying the Bible. Chang...
...would be catastrophic for countries like Singapore, which has been in a full-blown recession since July, and Taiwan, where economic misery has already reached levels unseen since the early 1970s. A global economic downturn isn't Taiwan's only problem: earlier this month, a record-breaking typhoon swamped Taipei, causing more than $2 billion in damage...
...Cantopop is quite a bit more astonishing. From a region of some 7 million people--smaller in population than North Carolina, smaller in size than Rhode Island--comes pop music, in Hong Kong's Cantonese language, that dominates the Chinese-speaking world. Cantopop stars are mobbed in Beijing and Taipei, in London and Las Vegas. Last Christmas, veteran mesmerizer Leslie Cheung gave a sold-out concert at Caesars Palace, where tickets went for $80 and $238. The same night, half a mile down the Strip, Jackie Chan--yes, he's also a singer--led an all-star music revue that...