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Catherine C. Chang ’07, a member of the newly-formed Pub Nights Commission, agrees that the administration should play a specific, but limited, role...
...watched as the collective pressure of a wedding transforms normally reasonable folk into lunatics. But Chien-Chi Chang has taken that experience a step further?he's making art out of the insanity. In his 2002 book I Do, I Do, I Do, the Taiwan-born, New York-based photographer cast a jaundiced eye on the florid excesses of the wedding industry in his native island: the countless gaudy outfits thrown on and off for the wedding portrait, the banquet dinner that could fill the hangar of an aircraft carrier. Chang's perceptive photos showed the ordinary, exhausted people buried...
...Chang, a 44-year-old photographer who occasionally works for TIME, tracked several agencies that hook up Taiwan men with Vietnamese women desperate to secure a better life, even if it means leaving their native land forever. Brokered marriages across borders are not unusual in Asia. The wives of many Japanese farmers, for example, are mail-order brides from the Philippines. But the Taiwan-Vietnam connection has proved particularly robust, yielding some 80,000 such couplings over the past decade. Chang followed the men to Ho Chi Minh City, where they're shown an array of young women preselected...
...avoid the camera's gaze. Once the men have made their picks, the future couples and current strangers pass through immigration and brief counseling. As they absorb lectures on culture shock and communication, no one says a word to each other?no one even looks at each other?but Chang makes their body language easy to read. He captures the physical atmosphere of apprehension and awkwardness generated by two very different people suddenly cast together, for better or worse. We can feel the effort of will required by both bride and groom to continue down this path. The women cannot...
...weddings Chang documents seem to have little in common with Western traditional notions of what a marriage should be: a photogenic celebration of love between soul mates, suitable for framing. These brokered arrangements are cross-border business transactions between a rich place and a poor country, set up to meet a consumer demand: man wants a wife; woman wants a better life. But ultimately the commodity being traded is the desire to find happiness with another, a wish embodied in every wedding, even ones with plastic champagne glasses and fake flowers. Chang exposes the tinsel promises of the marriage industry...