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"I taught him kung fu, asking him to practice every day. But he just did it perfunctorily for me. If I scolded him, he would just go to his room and play guitar," Chan said.
Chan said his son began writing songs at 14. But Chan did not let him develop his music career until two years ago, when Chan saw a song written by his son, which told of an unhappy childhood being a superstar's son.
Now 19, his son is scheduled to release his first album at the end of this year. Taiwanese music producer, Lee Tsung-sheng (
"He's very talented, writing eight out of 10 songs on the album. He has his own style, it's not R&B nor hip-hop, as has been rumored," Lee was quoted as saying by Chinese media.
Talking about his son, Chan admitted that the son "may not have had much freedom in his childhood."
Chan married his wife Lin Feng-jiao (
After the marriage Lin swiftly retired from public life and the marriage has been kept secret in order to maintain Chan's image as a single man. It wasn't until three years ago when Chan published his biography in English that he openly talked about his wife and son.
In late October of 1873 the government of Japan decided against sending a military expedition to Korea to force that nation to open trade relations. Across the government supporters of the expedition resigned immediately. The spectacle of revolt by disaffected samurai began to loom over Japanese politics. In January of 1874 disaffected samurai attacked a senior minister in Tokyo. A month later, a group of pro-Korea expedition and anti-foreign elements from Saga prefecture in Kyushu revolted, driven in part by high food prices stemming from poor harvests. Their leader, according to Edward Drea’s classic Japan’s Imperial Army, was a samurai
The following three paragraphs are just some of what the local Chinese-language press is reporting on breathlessly and following every twist and turn with the eagerness of a soap opera fan. For many English-language readers, it probably comes across as incomprehensibly opaque, so bear with me briefly dear reader: To the surprise of many, former pop singer and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) ex-lawmaker Yu Tien (余天) of the Taiwan Normal Country Promotion Association (TNCPA) at the last minute dropped out of the running for committee chair of the DPP’s New Taipei City chapter, paving the way for DPP legislator Su
It’s hard to know where to begin with Mark Tovell’s Taiwan: Roads Above the Clouds. Having published a travelogue myself, as well as having contributed to several guidebooks, at first glance Tovell’s book appears to inhabit a middle ground — the kind of hard-to-sell nowheresville publishers detest. Leaf through the pages and you’ll find them suffuse with the purple prose best associated with travel literature: “When the sun is low on a warm, clear morning, and with the heat already rising, we stand at the riverside bike path leading south from Sanxia’s old cobble streets.” Hardly the stuff of your
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