My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.
From Kevin Kwan
I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.
I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.
There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.
'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.
If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.
No matter our background, we all have crazy families.
Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.
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