Crazy Rich Asians with Wei Ming Kam

Sentimental Garbage

Justice for Dumb Women

Sex And The City, Arts, Musicals, Society & Culture, Culture, Queer, Movies, Camp, Literature, Tv

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ready to pair your Yves Saint Laurent smoking jacket with your $3 batik shorts? We're joined by publisher and writer Wei Ming Kam to talk Crazy Rich Asians, the blockbuster book series that launched a thousand think pieces. We discuss the pure heaven that is Astrid Leong, foodie culture in Singapore, identifying with British colonialism when it doesn't identify with you, the Western gaze on the Asian experience and emeralds, glorious emeralds! Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day, produced by Caroline O'Donoghue, mixed by Hannah Varrall.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we talk about the
0:08.9	chiklet that made us who we are.
0:10.8	My name is Karen Huddahue and I'm'm an author, a journalist and an air to a Taiwanese plastics fortune.
0:16.0	Joining me is Weiminkam, a writer, publishing maven and the first person's ever pair of
0:20.6	vintage you St. Laurent smoking jacket with three dollar boutique shorts.
0:23.7	What?
0:25.7	Today we're...
0:26.7	So fashionable, so elegant.
0:31.7	Today we're talking about Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians. So, Ming, we've never met before today, but we've been
0:38.0	tweeting each other about this book and also the film for over a year.
0:41.6	On and off, and I think we will continue to do so until the last film is released.
0:46.8	They are filming the last two films in a row next year.
0:50.8	Yeah.
0:51.8	And then clearly Kevin Kahn is going to come up with something else and so basically clearly Kevin Kwan's going to come up with something else.
0:53.4	And so basically, until Kevin Kwan is dead, we will be linked.
0:59.6	About this ridiculous book.
1:02.3	OK, so what, what's your relationship to these books?
1:05.9	What makes them so addictive and compelling?
1:07.5	What's your history with them?
1:11.5	They are just so over the top. I so I first encountered them. Let me see I think it was
1:20.0	2011 I was kind of like on the first year of what I thought was going to be my only gap year and
1:27.6	then it sort of turned out it was going to be four.
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