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Isaac Leung

Isaac Leung is a London-based analyst specialising in the politics and economics of Asia and the Pacific. It appears he has been damned to read the political and social codes at work in every act of culture. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he has travelled and worked in China.

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Hollywood cheers and China shrugs

An epic “Western” set in, er, China, could never please everyone. Isaac Leung explains why the continent-crossing ambitions of Ang Lee’s Oscar winner seemed irrelevant to eastern audiences.