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...task of scripting dialogue that has to be completely inoffensive? Seems to me that the attempted censorship of Mister Chu sports its own message of racial intolerance by restricting certain characteristics from Asians. And hey, Mister Chu isn't even a stereotype. After all, he doesn't even know kung...
...American media, Asian American youth often have no role models to look up to, no positive elements to take pride in. Hence they suffer in silence. Where are all of the romantic Asian male lead roles in movies? Why is every Asian-looking man in a movie either kung-fu fighting or a dull, weak businessman lacking in personality? Given the success and numbers of Asian Americans in such fields as science and business, why isn't there greater Asian American representation in politics...
DIED. IGNATIUS KUNG, 98, exiled Shanghai bishop who spent 30 years in prison for promoting Roman Catholicism in communist China and who was secretly named a Cardinal in 1979 while jailed; in Stamford, Conn...
...DeVore was deep in the Kalahari desert, performing the first professional study of the !Kung San people (Bushmen) of Botswana, who are known in the West for their click-full language...
When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...