https://www.scmp.com/rss/328375/feed Judith Huang (@trueboat) is a Singaporean author whose debut novel, Sofia and the Utopia Machine, a futuristic dystopia story set in Singapore, was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize 2017. She is a tutor at Yale-NUS College. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com It’s 2018, and Kevin Kwan’s Austenesque novel Crazy Rich Asians is now a summer movie blockbuster, launching a thousand op-eds about representation. But the book is not about race, it is about the impenetrability of class. Like Pride and Prejudice, it is about an intelligent, ambivalent young woman landing the most eligible bachelor and being initiated into high society. Only this time, it’s Singapore high society. The movie is opening in Singapore at a time when the hottest topic on the island... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2160954/singapore-full-crazy-rich-foreigners?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2160954/singapore-full-crazy-rich-foreigners?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:00:45 +0000