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...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. Her mission is to seduce and kill...
LUST, CAUTION Ang Lee, whose Toronto favorite Brokeback Mountain lost the big Oscar to Crash, has a Chinese drama set in wartime Shanghai starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai (Hero) and new face Tang Wei. The movie must be steamy; the U.S. ratings board slapped a proscriptive...
Wang’s friend Rui Tang ’07 wrote in The Crimson several days later: “I have met so many people in my life, but only few stand out in my memory. Hui was one of them. He was intelligent, thoughtful, entertaining, and humble...
...Just down the street, at 38 Guozijian, is the family-run Shengtangxuan, tel: (86-10) 8404 7179. This dusty, cramped store has a small collection of minute, elaborate cloth and paper kites, and Beijing opera masks. But its prime claim to fame is Manchurian clay toys. The Tang family has five generations of toy making behind it, and members still faithfully use the same methods as their Manchu ancestors. Among the collectibles are wobbly headed lions (complete with fluffy manes) and figurines of a rabbit god worshiped in Beijing since the Ming dynasty. The little ones will adore them...
...musical presence. Since then, he’s had a failed television show with partner-in-crime Method Man, roles in multiple video games, and a spot in a Nickelodeon cartoon. He’s changed since his days as a member of Def Squad and moonlighting as Wu-Tang Clan’s honorary member. Right? Judging from his latest release, “Red Gone Wild,” the answer is clear: absolutely not. And that’s what both plagues and fuels Redman throughout the album, nowhere more than on the Timbaland-produced single...