Explanations abound about "Chinese-ness," when the reason is staring at us in the face. At the Los Angeles premiere for Ang Lee's new film Lust, Caution , reporters especially the Chinese-language ones couldn't stop asking the acclaimed director about the negative reviews of the film from the English-language media. More than that, they felt compelled to explain the bad reviews. The film's inherent "Chinese-ness" was a typical answer, especially when speaking to the Chinese press. For instance, Lee argued that the film came natural to Chinese audiences and then resigned to the fact that "crossing-over" to the West would be a major challenge. Or as actor Wang Leehom puts it: "The nerves that it hits on are poignant to the Chinese audiences all around the world.
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The conclusion to the true and emotionally turbulent first time I shared my Asian girlfriend. As I gazed through the rain stained taxi window, at the dimly lit streets of Bangkok, the shuttered shop windows could not pass quickly enough. My mind was distracted and my eyes were in no mood to rest on anything. So they hopped manically from my watch, to the window, to my phone. My thoughts were immovably fixed on a hotel bedroom, but I knew not where.
My first big beauty purchase was a Shu Uemura eyelash curler. But I was determined to make my eyelashes look as long and lifted as possible. Since my Asian eyes are on the smaller side, I rely on accentuating my lashes to get that coveted open-eyed look.
Like Notorious , Lust, Caution is structured like nested Chinese boxes, a play within a play within a play with a simmering sexual triangle at its center. It opens not long before the end of the war, during a perpetual mahjong game among four Chinese women in Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the s. Mak Tang Wei is married to an import-export jobber in Hong Kong, and while making contacts for him in Shanghai she stays with the Yees.