https://www.scmp.com/rss/142077/feed Ajay is a Los Angeles-based journalist who worked as a staff correspondent for Asiaweek magazine in Hong Kong in the 1990s and in the New Delhi bureaus of The Associated Press and The Wall Street Journal Asia. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution by Tsering Woeser Potomac Books 4/5 stars The Dalai Lama has called it “the most sacred temple” in Tibet. Located in the capital, Lhasa, and dating back to the seventh century, the Jokhang temple is a magnet for devout Tibetans who gather there every day to pray, prostrating themselves on the ground. But among the worshippers who visit Jokhang these days, it would not be unusual to find former cadres of Mao Zedong’s revolutionary Red Guards... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3086264/forbidden-memory-explores-role-tibetan-red-guards?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3086264/forbidden-memory-explores-role-tibetan-red-guards?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 29 May 2020 20:00:18 +0000 The Journey of Liu Xiaobo: From Dark Horse to Nobel Laureate edited by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman with Yu Zhang and others Potomac Books 4.5/5 stars Towards the end of a book launch held in Taipei in July 2017, bestselling Chinese author and demo­cracy advocate Yu Jie invoked a quote that was also the title of his latest work: “Take out a rib and use it as a torch.” Socrates had used these words, the author told the gathering, but Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo had practised them throughout his... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3080053/journey-liu-xiaobo-reveals-how-chinese-dissident-went?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3080053/journey-liu-xiaobo-reveals-how-chinese-dissident-went?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Apr 2020 04:00:25 +0000 Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong One World 4.5/5 stars Just before the publication of her fourth and latest book, Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong read from it at a small gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Later, the gallery manager, “a white man with a beard and tattoos”, ambled up to her and announced he was taking a racial awareness seminar, a requirement for his other job. His instructor, the manager said, told him how minor­ities in the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3052459/minor-feelings-cathy-park-hong-asks-whether-asian?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3052459/minor-feelings-cathy-park-hong-asks-whether-asian?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:00:10 +0000 My Seditious Heart by Arundhati Roy Haymarket Books 5/5 stars Arundhati Roy stood on top of a hill and laughed out loud. It was the last year of the 20th century and in the distance, beyond a river in the wealthy Indian state of Gujarat, the renowned author could see tribal hamlets about to be lost to an immense government hydroelectric dam. “I knew I was looking at a civilisation older than Hinduism,” Roy writes in her latest book, My Seditious Heart, a collection of her previously published... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3018032/arundhati-roys-my-seditious-heart-political-essays-20?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3018032/arundhati-roys-my-seditious-heart-political-essays-20?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:00:13 +0000 One morning, Pico Iyer stepped out of the flat he shares with his Japanese wife in suburban Japan and instantly felt transported to the Himalayas. “A sudden mist enshrouds our little lane and there’s a mountain enclosedness to everything, though in Nepal the trash would never be confined to a single compact square on the street corner,” writes the celebrated author in his latest book, Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells. A woman, he adds, is “padding past in her jammies … I suppress a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3013821/british-writer-and-poet-pico-iyer-life-love-and-mortality?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3013821/british-writer-and-poet-pico-iyer-life-love-and-mortality?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:15:12 +0000 Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China by Karoline Kan Hachette Books 4/5 stars The word “generation” can divide or unite, and in both ways informs Karoline Kan’s riveting memoir, Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China. A former New York Times reporter who writes about millennial life and politics in China, Kan grew up in the countryside in the 1990s and early 2000s. She earned the nickname genpichong, or “bum beetle”, for her habit of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3008551/under-red-skies-karoline-kan-comes-terms-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3008551/under-red-skies-karoline-kan-comes-terms-chinas?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 03 May 2019 00:05:07 +0000 Helen Zia was 19 years old when she first travelled to the People’s Republic of China. It was 1972, and just a couple of months earlier US president Richard Nixon had paid a spectacular visit to Beijing for a summit with Chairman Mao Zedong that ended China’s international isolation and set the stage for a new world order. Zia, a former journalist who is now an author and advocate for Asian-American and other minority communities, was one of the first Americans to set foot in China after the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3005874/when-east-asians-were-enemy-why-fleeing-newly-communist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3005874/when-east-asians-were-enemy-why-fleeing-newly-communist?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:00:09 +0000 An Indefinite Sentence: A Personal History of Outlawed Love and Sex by Siddharth Dube Atria Books When Siddharth Dube left India for the United States in 1982 to com­plete his college studies, he had no idea that homosexuality was illegal in more than half of America’s 50 states. A gay man who would go on to play a significant role in helping combat India’s Aids epidemic, Dube was shocked to learn that American men were being arrested in the privacy of their own homes for having gay... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3001438/siddharth-dubes-memoir-examines-how-homophobia-became?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3001438/siddharth-dubes-memoir-examines-how-homophobia-became?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Mar 2019 10:30:15 +0000 Tall Order: The Goh Chok Tong Story, by Shing Huei Peh, World Scientific, 4 stars In one of the more dramatic scenes peppered throughout the first biography of former Singaporean prime minister Goh Chok Tong, an academic steps into his office in 1987, three years before Goh took over power from his political godfather, the legendary Lee Kuan Yew. “She was looking around and seemed somewhat nervous,” Goh is quoted as saying of his visitor in the first volume of the authorised biography, titled... https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2180252/biography-singapore-prime-minister-goh-chok-tong-dwells-his?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2180252/biography-singapore-prime-minister-goh-chok-tong-dwells-his?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Jan 2019 00:00:45 +0000 The Kipling File by Sudhir Kakar Penguin For all its faults, British colonial rule bestowed a number of lasting benefits on India, from modern education and administration systems to a postal service and rail network that help connect the vast subcontinent. Another positive product of colonial expansion was a journalist who went on to become the bard of the British Empire – a literary colossus who has long ruled the English imagination and who was British India’s gift to the world. There’s no... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2168959/rudyard-kiplings-sadism-and-squalid-sexual-urges-writ?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2168959/rudyard-kiplings-sadism-and-squalid-sexual-urges-writ?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Oct 2018 03:36:48 +0000 Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen Penguin Books The first time Sharmila Sen saw an African-American was in 1982, outside the United States consulate in the Indian city of Kolkata, on a street named after Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh. The man was a US marine guarding the consulate and Sen, aged 12, was there for an interview ahead of emigrating to America. “I saw two men in spotless uniforms,” she writes in her memoir, Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America.... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2161854/indian-migrants-searing-appraisal-race-united-states?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2161854/indian-migrants-searing-appraisal-race-united-states?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:45:30 +0000 Number One Chinese Restaurantby Lillian Li Henry Holt and Co As Lillian Li’s debut novel opens, with a scene in a Chinese restaurant in America, a group of waiters are singing Happy Birthday. They are horribly out of tune. As the song fades and the customer blows out the candle on her complimentary cheesecake, the waiters retreat to their tables, still applauding. “We need great leader,” one of them says dejectedly as their unpopular boss sits nearby. At once darkly comical and beguiling, the... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2150626/hope-conflict-struggle-chinese-american-experience?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2150626/hope-conflict-struggle-chinese-american-experience?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Jun 2018 11:32:04 +0000 Leftover in China: The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpower by Roseann Lake W.W. Norton & Co 3.5 stars One of the most striking effects of globalisation is that an educated, professional woman in Shanghai or Beijing has more in common with similar women in New York or London than she does with a female Chinese factory worker in a town an hour’s train ride away. And as educated professionals in the West have done for decades, these days young, upwardly mobile Chinese women are increasingly... https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2135413/why-educated-professional-women-china-arent-marrying-new-book-explores?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2135413/why-educated-professional-women-china-arent-marrying-new-book-explores?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Mar 2018 12:00:45 +0000 Of all the people who denounced Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign for proposing “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” as a way to combat terrorism, perhaps none was more scathing than Khizr Khan, a Pakistan-born lawyer whose 27-year-old son, a captain in the US army, was killed by a suicide bomber during the 2004 war in Iraq. “Donald Trump, you are asking Americans to trust you with their future,” Khan said in a widely televised speech at the... https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2124270/khizr-khans-memoir-details-muslim-familys-pursuit-american-dream-after?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/books/article/2124270/khizr-khans-memoir-details-muslim-familys-pursuit-american-dream-after?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Dec 2017 04:30:30 +0000 King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea by Blaine Harden Viking His United States Air Force rank was a secret and the men he commanded knew him only as “a big shot”. One of the founding fathers of America’s covert cold war operations, he is credited with finding more bombing targets than anyone else during the Korean war of 1950 to 1953. Had he been alive today, US President Donald Trump would probably have sent him to take out “Rocket Man” Kim Jong-un. Donald Nichols was... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2115859/one-man-war-machine-americas-spymaster-korea-and-his?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2115859/one-man-war-machine-americas-spymaster-korea-and-his?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:16:00 +0000 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy Hamish Hamilton When India became independent in 1947 alongside newly created, Muslim-majority Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto, arguably the greatest South Asian writer of the 20th century, remarked that Indians and Pakistanis might be politically free, but they remained the “slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity”. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, the first novel in two decades by celebrated Indian... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2099192/arundhati-roys-first-novel-20-years-although-not?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/2099192/arundhati-roys-first-novel-20-years-although-not?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:00:45 +0000 Frog by Mo Yan Viking Dissident Ma Jian's haunting 2013 novel The Dark Road tells the story of a rural couple who live like fugitives on the Yangtze River, while trying to have a second baby in violation of China's one-child policy. Described by the noted author and literary critic Hari Kunzru as "immoderate, excessive, strident" but also "deeply compelling", the novel highlights one of the most disquieting aspects of modern Chinese history. It's tempting to speculate what the fate of Ma's... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1704429/book-review-frog-mo-yan-dramatises-trauma-one-child-policy-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1704429/book-review-frog-mo-yan-dramatises-trauma-one-child-policy-china?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Feb 2015 14:45:30 +0000 As Hong Kong households start spring cleaning ahead of Lunar New Year, Marie Kondo, the Japanese diva of decluttering, may have some useful tips for families trying to establish some order in cramped flats. Kondo, 29, grew up in a small Tokyo home that, like many in Japan, looked well-ordered from the front but was a mess inside, its spaces overflowing with clothes, gadgets and other items. "It was only normal for that time in Japan," she says. Her introduction to tidiness came from watching her... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1699429/tidiness-guru-says-keep-only-things-bring-you-happiness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/family-education/article/1699429/tidiness-guru-says-keep-only-things-bring-you-happiness?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2015 22:45:30 +0000 I Ching translated by John Minford Viking In China, the I Ching is a highly influential classic whose status in any other culture might have been that of sacred scripture. The oldest existing book of divination dating back 3,000 years, it is widely consulted in both China and the West for answers not just to life's fundamental problems but also in the worlds of business, medicine, leadership and game theory. A new translation of the oracle by John Minford, a professor of Chinese at the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1672928/book-review-i-ching-wisdom-found-translation-chinese-oracle?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1672928/book-review-i-ching-wisdom-found-translation-chinese-oracle?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 03 Jan 2015 13:04:31 +0000 In the Light of What We Know by Zia Haider Rahman Farrar, Straus and Giroux In Zia Haider Rahman's debut novel, In the Light of What We Know, a young, Oxford-educated, Bangladeshi-born British human rights lawyer named only as Zafar befriends a colonel in the Pakistani army against the backdrop of the past decade's war in Afghanistan. "What is strange to me is that although I know a fair deal about you, I'm still puzzled as to who you really are," the colonel tells the novel's protagonist,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1665452/book-review-light-what-we-know-haider-rahman?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1665452/book-review-light-what-we-know-haider-rahman?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:15:15 +0000 Don George first discovered his innocence in France - and then in Greece, Tanzania, Japan and more than 80 other nations. A lifelong travel writer, he's the editor of An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips From 35 Great Writers, an anthology of travel literature released by Lonely Planet. Innocence is the handmaiden of worldliness, George argues, and his anthology is proof of that complex relationship. From youthful adventures in Europe to tales of war, the book is a rich mixture of original,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1661415/author-qa-don-george-ajay-singh?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1661415/author-qa-don-george-ajay-singh?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:37:27 +0000 "Without you there is no motherland, without you there is no us," is a popular line from a song that praises former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Three times a day, the students at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a closely guarded all-male institution where the sons of North Korea's elite are sent to study, sing that song as they march on campus. Suki Kim spent six months teaching English to PUST students in 2011, the year the dictator died. A Korean-born resident of... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1656384/qa-suki-kim-ajay-singh?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1656384/qa-suki-kim-ajay-singh?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Dec 2014 15:15:45 +0000 The Descartes Highlands is an area of the moon where the Apollo 16 expedition landed in 1972 and scooped up rocks and soil, leaving dark tracks that can be glimpsed through a telescope to this day. Manila-born, New York-based author Eric Gamalinda chose that region as the title of his fifth novel partly because 1972 was also the year in which the Philippines began its descent into political chaos after Ferdinand Marcos imposed martial law. The Descartes Highlands begins with a young American... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1639773/author-qa-eric-gamalinda?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1639773/author-qa-eric-gamalinda?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Nov 2014 12:16:01 +0000 When people or things go in different directions, they are said to "scatter". Some of the most extreme scattering occurs when a bomb goes off in a busy street, killing, maiming and causing havoc. In his debut novel, The Scatter Here is Too Great , Bilal Tanweer describes what it's like to live in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, where thousands of people have been killed over the years in extremist violence. "Insulation was the most important lesson you learned on Karachi's roads: see as... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1623713/author-qa-bilal-tanweer?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1623713/author-qa-bilal-tanweer?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:32:11 +0000 Indian novelist Vikram Chandra was 12 years old when he wrote his first work of published fiction - a sci-fi story that appeared in the student magazine of his boarding school in India. "Until then, reading stories and telling them mainly to myself had been a reliable, profound pleasure and a desperately needed comfort," Chandra writes in Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty , his fourth book and first work of nonfiction. "The shock of seeing my secret life made public, in print,... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1608876/when-fiction-hits-lull-novelist-turns-technology?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1608876/when-fiction-hits-lull-novelist-turns-technology?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:15:15 +0000 The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao Viking Penguin 4 stars Ajay Singh Love and suffering are so inextricably tied in the psyche of Vietnam that the nation's epic poem The Tale of Kieu revolves around a hero who is separated for years from his lover, but never stops dreaming of their reunion. The same dynamic defines the lives of the father and daughter who narrate The Lotus and the Storm, a poignant novel by Vietnamese-American writer Lan Cao. The lotus is a metaphor for the two immigrants... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1592308/book-review-lotus-and-storm-lan-cao?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1592308/book-review-lotus-and-storm-lan-cao?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:28:34 +0000 The opening line of The Accidental Apprentice, the third and latest novel by Vikas Swarup, reads: "In life you never get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate." Through the world of corporate business, Swarup tells the coming-of-age story of the novel's narrator - a 21st-century version of the Cinderella story in which, he says, "instead of Prince Charming, Cinderella is offered the CEO-ship of a US$10 billion company". Swarup, who has worked as a diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1592316/street-ceo-seat-slumdog-author?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1592316/street-ceo-seat-slumdog-author?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2014 05:28:34 +0000 Ed Lin was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, where his parents, immigrants from Taiwan and the mainland, owned small hotels. A financial journalist who has been described as the voice of a new generation of Chinese-Americans, Lin is the author of five novels, including a crime series set in New York's Chinatown. His 2002 debut novel, Waylaid , based on his childhood, was adapted into a film, The Motel (2006). Lin's latest novel, Ghost Month , is a murder mystery... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1569171/asian-american-ed-lin-lives-great-american-dream?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1569171/asian-american-ed-lin-lives-great-american-dream?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Aug 2014 04:46:15 +0000 THE FACE OF THE ENEMY It wasn't a conscious decision to search for my Asian self; it was an urgency born out of an emptiness I was trying to fill. I grew up not knowing how to be and I became aware of this when I was in my 30s or 40s. The way I've defined it in my book ( Big Little Man) is that I was trying to figure out how to be a man. But more than that, I was trying to figure out how to be an Asian man in the West. I grew up with the embedded notion that if you were Asian and a man, you were... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1555578/my-life-alex-tizon?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1555578/my-life-alex-tizon?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:00:00 +0000 On his first day after emigrating from India to America in the 1970s, the narrator of Akhil Sharma's novel Family Life watches in amazement as his father turns on the hot water tap in their one-bedroom apartment in New York City. "I had the sense of being in a fairy tale, one of those stories with a jug that is always full of milk or a bag that never empties of food," writes the novel's protagonist, Ajay Mishra. "During the coming days, the wealth of America kept astonishing me." Family Life... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1513477/immigrants-struggles-rendered-beautifully-spare-style-akhil-sharma?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1513477/immigrants-struggles-rendered-beautifully-spare-style-akhil-sharma?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 18 May 2014 07:45:54 +0000 Yiyun Li arrived in the United States in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in biology from Peking University and dreams of becoming an immunologist. Instead, she became a writer. "I gave up my science career because I really liked writing and happened to be going to a school that has a very good writing programme," she says, referring to the prestigious Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she obtained two master's degrees in fine arts. This novel is really about how extraordinary... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1459245/yiyun-li-goes-deep-human-condition-her-writing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1459245/yiyun-li-goes-deep-human-condition-her-writing?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:15:30 +0000 Five is a lucky number for Chang-rae Lee, the Korean-American writer whose fifth novel, On Such a Full Sea , was published this month. It isn't just that five is considered auspicious in Asia, where, says Lee, objects of everyday life such as bowls and chopsticks are sold in sets of five. It's also that Lee and his mother wore the number in sports: she was on a South Korean junior national girls basketball team, and he played basketball and baseball after migrating to the United States as a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1402299/chang-rae-lee-talks-about-his-novel-such-full-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/books/article/1402299/chang-rae-lee-talks-about-his-novel-such-full-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 12 Jan 2014 08:00:15 +0000 Kane hates shiny floors. The last time he ran on one he went through a plate-glass door - all 73kg of him - and was knocked unconscious. Take Kane near a linoleum floor these days and he freezes. That's what the Great Dane is doing today - refusing to enter an uncarpeted room. A short man in khaki trousers and a blue T-shirt has him on a leash. Although the man isn't much larger than the dog, he urges him to step forwards, tugging gently but firmly on the leash. Kane doesn't budge. His brow is... https://www.scmp.com/article/585489/ruff-justice?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/585489/ruff-justice?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:00:00 +0000 Like many of her teenage friends, Jennifer Nicholson grew up with a passion for fashion. But there was one difference: she never flipped through the pages of Vogue, Glamour or Seventeen for inspiration. She didn't have to. She simply gazed at her father's girlfriends - glamorous film actresses Anjelica Houston and Michelle Phillips - or his co-workers, style icons such as Faye Dunaway, Candice Bergen and Jessica Lange. Because her father is Oscar-winning film legend Jack Nicholson, Jennifer... https://www.scmp.com/article/442906/jacks-lass?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/442906/jacks-lass?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:00:00 +0000 AUTHOR AMY TAN is no stranger to misfortune. When she was 14 years old, her father and brother died of brain tumours. A decade later, her best friend was tortured and murdered, forcing Tan to abandon her doctoral studies at the prestigious University of California in Berkeley. Four years ago, her mother died of Alzheimer's disease, and two weeks later Tan's literary agent, who helped her write a series of phenomenal bestsellers, succumbed to breast cancer. As misfortunes go, Tan thought she... https://www.scmp.com/article/434025/reality-bites?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/434025/reality-bites?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 08 Nov 2003 16:00:00 +0000 WHEN JANE JUSKA turned 50 in 1983 she weighed 106kg, partly the result of getting drunk every evening. And with a runaway son who dressed like a punk rocker, she lived in a house she couldn't afford and worked 60 hours a week. She hadn't had sex in 15 years, except with herself, an act she found more revolting with each 5kg addition to her 1.6-metre frame. Months before her 67th birthday, tired of being celibate and feeling bound for an early death, Juska placed a personal ad in the New York... https://www.scmp.com/article/421505/twinkles-and-wrinkles?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/421505/twinkles-and-wrinkles?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:00:00 +0000