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To Have or Not to Have: The Chinese Way of Children
This editorial is inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s poem On Children. For me, Christmas is really about children. Without them around my Christmas tree and all the goodies piled under, the Christmas feeling is just not there. Yet even as I think of a great family Christmas this year, I am also reminded of the thousands…
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I Am Not Kissing Him!
One of the challenges that I did not anticipate as author and producer of Our Man in Beijng, was one of the female actors refusing to kiss the male lead.
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‘Our Man In Beijing’ In Malaysia
Opening night in Penang was stunningly revealing for me! The audience which was made up of 90 percent Chinese laughed at all the lines to do with Chinese when Mei Ling said in response to John Williams’ wish to return a favour immediately: “We Chinese take three generations to pay back favours.”