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...market?in its first year of operation. It took I Cable, Hong Kong's sole cable-TV provider, five years to reach that milestone after launching in 1993. "Two years ago, I wouldn't have predicted that our main competition would be from the phone company," says Samuel Wong, I Cable...
Although she has yet to graduate, Julia C. Wong ’05 already knows well the business of imaginative writing. In fact, the Leverett House resident serves as the Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate, frequently enrolls in fiction workshops and is even pursuing a creative thesis under the guidance of the legendary author of fiction Jamaica Kincaid. This week, the English and American Literature and Language concentrator took a brief break from her literary business for some time under the “Spotlight,” sharing her thoughts on her development as a writer at Harvard...
...future rock” in style, Xuan specializes in analog synthesizers and electronic music. He’s even carving time out of his premed course load to take a year-long electronic music class. A close friend of Xuan’s, Tim H. Wong ’05, remarks that “the reason Yan is interesting is that he’s got all these under-the-radar talents...
Under-the-radar to the world, perhaps, but not to friends. “Yan surely has a tongue-in-cheek ironic self-promotion about him,” Wong says. The snowshoe that hangs on his wall is a testament to his love of the absurd. “I don’t snowshoe,” he says. “It’s meant to be ironic...
What about Tony Leung and Wong Kar-Wai, the powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly...