Chinese Friends: Letters
The kettle calling the pot black Whenever I'm with Chinese friends I inevitably launch into a tirade about Tibet. I express my outrage that the invasion and annexation in 1959 were unconscionable and cowardly.Unconscionable, because its motivation was for strategic and mineral gain (the country is rich in natural resources) and certainly did not involve "rescuing" the Tibetan people from their theocracy, a line that is regularly trotted out by...
Chinese Friends: New Straits Times (Malaysia):
Getting their point across ..LD: FOR two Royal Malaysian Airforce officers, being proud of surmounting cultural stigmas
are some of the benefits of becoming pilots. Besides wanting to fulfill his childhood dream, Lt Goh Keng Loon wants to
become a fighter
FOR two Royal Malaysian Airforce officers, being proud of surmounting cultural stigmas are some of the benefits of becoming pilots.Besides wanting to fulfill his childhood dream, Lt Goh Keng Loon wants to become a fighter pilot to prove to his Chinese friends who think a job in the armed forces does not pay well. "When I went back to my home town of Kota Baru, I was one of the few who owned a car. Most of my friends who had graduated from universities still couldn't...
Chinese Friends: ANGER, SORROW SIMMER IN CHINA AS VICTIMS RETURN
China's leaders cried with the family members of victims of NATO's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia. Students shouted anti-American slogans. And an apologetic American ambassador ventured out of his embassy after four days of angry protests.Amid the anger and sorrow gripping China on Wednesday, no one seemed ready to talk about reconciliation. ``I think we need to give our Chinese friends a day of grief,'' U.S. Ambassador James...
Chinese Friends: REVIEW
`Friends' in need ... indeed Jacques le Sourd The Journal News Watch out when your college-age kid comes home for the weekend with a couple of friends. Even if you've got a tenderloin of pork with morel sauce waiting along with a nice Sancerre, it may turn out the boy has far more sinister plans for you. Before dinner.In "Chinese Friends," a truly abysmal play by Jon Robin Baitz that opened last night at Playwrights Horizons, the...
Chinese Friends: Playing with the plays,
Local actor Peter Strauss joins diverse cast, helping readings at Ojai Playwrights Conference
Actor Peter Strauss' latest character isn't necessarily a rich man or a poor man. In "Chinese Friends" a new play by theatrical Wunderkind Jon Robin Baitz that will be given a semi-staged reading Sunday at the Ojai Playwrights Conference he's a former spy who has retreated to an island with an incriminating tape recording in his possession.Baitz's work-in-progress also will feature Maggie Gyllenhaal playing against...