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The Undercover Tai Tai

The Undercover Tai Tai
Author: Maya O. Calica
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2008-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9814677434

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Amanda Tay thinks she is losing her mind—or starring in a surreal film by Stanley Kubrick. You would be too if you’ve been knocked unconscious on your first date in 27 years only to awaken in a beautifully appointed apartment that looks like a page from Tatler Magazine. Last time she checked, the film student-turned-book researcher was renting a tiny room in a flat, so what was she doing sprawled on a king-sized bed with 600-thread count bed sheets and a ponkan-sized bump on her head? The Undercover Tai Tai is a hilarious journey of a young woman who, while pretending to be someone else, makes connections with her past and discovers parts of herself that she never thought existed.


Undercover Tai Tai

Undercover Tai Tai
Author: Maya O. Calica
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2010
Genre:
ISBN: 9789712723094

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Vulgar Beauty

Vulgar Beauty
Author: Mila Zuo
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2022-01-24
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147802271X

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In Vulgar Beauty Mila Zuo offers a new theorization of cinematic feminine beauty by showing how mediated encounters with Chinese film and popular culture stars produce feelings of Chineseness. To illustrate this, Zuo uses the vulgar as an analytic to trace how racial, gendered, and cultural identity is imagined and produced through affect. She frames the vulgar as a characteristic that is experienced through the Chinese concept of weidao, or flavor, in which bitter, salty, pungent, sweet, and sour performances of beauty produce non-Western forms of sexualized and racialized femininity. Analyzing contemporary film and media ranging from actress Gong Li’s post-Mao movies of the late 1980s and 1990s to Joan Chen’s performance in Twin Peaks to Ali Wong’s stand-up comedy specials, Zuo shows how vulgar beauty disrupts Western and colonial notions of beauty. Vulgar beauty, then, becomes the taste of difference. By demonstrating how Chinese feminine beauty becomes a cinematic invention invested in forms of affective racialization, Zuo makes a critical reconsideration of aesthetic theory.


Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 6

Philippine Speculative Fiction Volume 6
Author: Nikki Alfar
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2012-07-09
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 6210100570

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A supernatural basketball superstar; An expert on interspecies dating and marriage counselor to the peculiar; A girl in a Muslim empire engineering a pair of mechanical wings. Meet these characters, and more, in this volume of Philippine Speculative Fiction, featuring stories from the genres of fantasy, science fiction, and horror.


Budget is the New Black

Budget is the New Black
Author: Claire Betita de Guzman
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9814677426

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With a fabulous job, designer outfits, a posh flat, and glamorous trips abroad, fashionista and public relations executive Sabbie Chua seems to have it made/ And when she manages to snag a big client for her firm, it seems as though there’s nowhere else for her career to go but up. All she needs is the man of her dreams – and, well, she’s almost there, if she can get hunky architect Gil to finally commit to being her boyfriend. But the course of true love doesn’t run smooth and her high-flying life comes crashing to a halt after a crushing heartbreak and a major, humiliating office gaffe. When Sabbie has to bid goodbye to her thousand-dollar handbags and expensive high heels and say hello to thriftstore finds and a penny-pinching life, she discovers that going from high maintenance gal to low-budget babe is no easy struggle… And that’s before she got wind of how much she needed to pay off her credit card bill…


In 5 Easy Steps (WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL ASIAN CHIC WRITING COMPETITION 2009)

In 5 Easy Steps (WINNER OF THE INAUGURAL ASIAN CHIC WRITING COMPETITION 2009)
Author: Lum Kit- Wye
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009-11-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9814677418

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All Elaine Chan has ever wanted is a loving husband and a houseful of children. But when her almost-fiancé unceremoniously dumps her after a humiliating episode involving childhood enemies, condoms and puking, Elaine realizes that a change is in order. Armed with an article promising to show her how to re-invent herself in just 5 easy steps, Elaine finds herself on a one-way coach ride to a new life, a new future, a new her. But the complete makeover of Elaine is an arduous process, and is threatened with derailment by distractions like the mystery of the neighbour’s vanishing Indonesian maid, with which Elaine finds herself strangely obsessed. Her efforts to keep all the balls in the air as she plays glamour-puss, model girlfriend (to Evan, a hotshot young lawyer form work) and sleuth extraordinaire all rolled into one enticing depilated package, frequently lead her into situations that verge on the bizarre. Thank heavens through all the perils that seem to dog her evolution, and whose relaxed attitude to life reminds Elaine of how she used to be. As Elaine struggles to emerge as an elegant butterfly from the dowdy chrysalis that was her former self, she cannot help asking if these five steps are taking her to where she really wants to go.


Encyclopedia of Chinese Film

Encyclopedia of Chinese Film
Author: Zhiwei Xiao
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2002-06-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1134745540

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The Encyclopedia of Chinese Film, one of the first ever encyclopedias in this area, provides alphabetically organized entries on directors, genres, themes, and actors and actresses from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as well as 300 film synopses. Great care has been taken to provide solid cultural and historical context to the facts. The alphabetical entries are preceded by a substantial historical section, incorporating material on the the main studios and analysing the impact of Chinese film abroad as well as at home in recent years. This Encyclopedia meets the needs, equally, of * the film studies scholar * the student of Chinese culture * the specialist in Chinese film * the curious viewer wanting to know more. Additional features include: * comprehensive cross-references and suggestions for further reading * a list of relevant websites * a chronology of films and a classified contents list * three indexes - (one of film and tv titles with directors names and year of release, one of names including actors, writers, directors and producers and one of studios, all with pinyin romanizations) * a glossary of pinyin romanizations, Chinese characters and English equivalents to aid the specialist in moving between Chinese titles and English translations.


Virgin Film: Oliver Stone

Virgin Film: Oliver Stone
Author: Stephen Lavington
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 075354766X

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Three-time Oscar winner Oliver Stone is one of the most controversial and well-known contemporary American directors. He began his professional life as a screen writer and was responsible for the scripts of Midnight Express and Scarface. As a director he made one of the all-time great Vietnam war movies, Platoon, and went on to helm such definitive cinematic works as Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, Natural Born Killers and, most recently, Alexander - an epic biography of the legendary Greek king starring Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins. This indispensable guide takes each of Stone's writing and directoial features in chronological order, discussing them within categories such as Casting, Cut Scenes, Music Conspiriacy Theory? and Controversy. It looks at the inspiration behind his work, its connection with the real world and the story behind each film's development. Whether the subject is war, politics, sport or the defining aspects of an era, Stone is an expert at polarising audience views. This is an essential reference for all fans of Oliver Stone, writer, director and one of the most influential filmmakers of the last twenty-five years.


Twelve immortal swords

Twelve immortal swords
Author: Zhao Feng
Publisher: Devneybooks
Total Pages: 2888
Release:
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1304487768

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A bluestone path winds through it, with blue sea and blue sky on one side and steep cliffs on the other, and pines and strange rocks on the other side. When you walk, you suddenly feel relaxed and refreshed, which is really a paradise for immortals.


Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine
Author: Lee Foster Hartman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 890
Release: 1946-07
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

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Important American periodical dating back to 1850.