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...Anita Wen-Shin Chang Marking a notable achievement in Taiwanese cinema, Fishing Luck ( Deng dai fei yu ), the first feature narrative film set on Taiwan's Orchid Island, home to the Tao Aborigines, premiered in 2005 at the Twelfth Women Make Waves film festival in Taipei. It was also the first...

... migrants in Northeast China, whose labor is no longer demanded in Korea’s neoliberal restructuring processes and who try their luck in China’s uncertain but fast-growing economy. In Seotap, a Korean migrant enclave in Shenyang, South Korean sojourners, who mostly engage in the unstable service sector, have...

... of life and death. There is extreme enthusiasm among the jobless towards trying their luck or making a fast buck.”30 To play the game of jueteng, a bettor chooses two numbers from one to thirty-­seven, and at the very least, a winning...

.... There are sales ladies, waitresses, musicians, and office workers as well. The majority, however, are DH [domestic helpers] like me. Masters depend on your luck. There are masters who are kind and those who are short-­tempered. If luck is not on your...

...), and nationality (Völkischem): We were in luck. It was wonderfully clear in the afternoon, and little boys and girls from the elementary school were traveling on the ship in economy class. I stood at the front and listened, very pleasantly excited...

... seems to associate uncertainty with luck, hope, and fortune. Unlike workers in the formal sectors, their prospects of success do not lie in routinized work. People do not attach their future to factories and assembly lines that offer little hope for change and tether the workers to identities they want...

....: Duke University Press, 1996). 3 On the post-1965 immigration from Asia see Paul Ong, Edna Honacich, and Luck (:hcng, eds., The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Philadelphia: Tem- ple...

... you are doing, you will automatically go forward and be productive. Love your films and love your life. Bao: Thank you very much, Popo. We look forward to seeing more of your films, and good luck with working in the screen industries. Bao An Interview with Fan Popo 809 Notes 1 We thank Tang Xingjian...

... a wise man, a fool, and a slave. While the slave complains to the wise man about the miserable condition of his life, for there is not even a window in the house in which he lives, the wise man simply reassures him by saying that his luck will improve before long. By contrast, the fool takes Wang...

... there are four tiles each) were excluded, making for a total of only 108 tiles. Such simplification has the effect of shortening the duration, reducing the skill factor, and heightening the random or luck element of the game. The result of this watering...

... of “help” and “luck” betray a common theme: A wife should be grateful when her husband joins in the housework. When the family-owned business enlarges or the couple gain socioeco- positions 6:2 Fall 1998...

... of stealing things, are you deliberately trashing my reputation so that he won't find a wife?” Zhenlan replied, “You're crazy, I'm not messing with you—it's my bad luck to meet you!” After saying this, she turned around and was about to walk away. Yang chased after her with a brick in hand. As soon...

... novel Dumb Luck and the Nature of Vietnamese Modernism,” in Vu Trong Phung, Dumb Luck, trans. Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Peter Zinoman (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), 1 – 30. 14. Xuan Dieu, “Influence of French Poetry...

..., and even landlords who gamble their speculative timing and luck on the haphazard development of the urban villages. For the majority of others, life and livelihood in the urban villages serve as a place of ongoing displacement and exclusion. While village landlords erect nail houses in open defiance...

... to present itself while I thought out loud, dribbling out whatever thoughts came to me. For this reason the book may be opened anywhere; it does not matter where one starts reading. With luck it will all seem connected, like a series of links...

... what had been lost occurred many times a day throughout the city. Popular perception of the computer as an instrument of good luck and fortune was key to the rise of digital retouching, largely through the sym- bolism of billionaire Bill Gates...

..., the monastery, villages, and mountains are imagined as integral parts of a mandala, with four sacred mountains embracing the flower from the four directions. Elephants, lotus flowers, and mandalas symbolize empowerment, luck, and safety in Buddhism. The locals thus perform sacrifices at the sacred mountains...

... and meditation to become a different self. As luck would have it, he is rescued after a year. Back in the colony, he becomes a legend, his acciden- tal history heralded as a miraculous event whose telling conveys blessings to those who hear and pass it on. His reputation for holiness is something he feels...

... include The Wedding Banquet (1993), Fut Drink Man Womun (I 994). and Sense and Sensibility (1995). Wayne Wang has had mainstream success with The Joy Luck Club (1993) and, to a lesser extent, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1989)and Dim Sum (1995...