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...ling in 1898 on the island of Hainan - site of the spy-plane incident that marked the first foreign policy crisis of the Bush administration - Madame Chiang was raised as a Christian and educated at Wellesley College where she graduated in 1917. Her sister, Ching-ling married Sun Yat-sen, the nationalist leader who created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before the onset of a bloody civil conflict between...
...halls of the Holy See in search of enlightenment?or an eyeful. Murals depict the sacred eye of God in a triangle and recreate the signing of the Third Alliance between God and man, witnessed by Caodaism's most revered saints: Vietnamese poet Trang Trinh, Chinese nationalist leader Sun Yat-sen and writer Victor Hugo. Midday Mass is open to the public and attended by church elders in brilliant blue, red and yellow robes...
...things start to look familiar as you turn onto Lebuh Armenian, it's not d?j? vu. Scenes from the recent Hollywood flop Anna and the King were filmed among the shophouses of this quiet street. The humble blue shophouse at No. 120 is where Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of modern China, planned much of the Chinese Revolution from...
...Chun, 1994). Yeoh's glorious balancing act with a plate of tofu is rightly famed: she never lets it touch the ground while successfully fending off an arrogant bruiser. But just as impressive is a scene with Wo-ping himself, in the 1983 Shaolin Drunkard, where he and brother Yat-choh quaff a hundred cups of wine while woozily balancing the wine table on their knees, backs and arms. These feats are descendants of the training scenes in Wo-ping's earlier star-making vehicles with Chan and Hung, but elevated from physical display to artful kung-foolery...
...affair: as a boy he appeared with his father in the old Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples (1985), Wo-ping plays what has to be called the Jerry Lewis role. No abasement is too extreme...