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A Small Umbrella, cool chips, Hokkien songs: Musings from a Taiwan jaunt
In semiconductors, umbrellas and pop culture, Taiwan has punched above its weight.
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(Clockwise from left) Taiwanese singer Siri Lee at the Golden Melody Awards in Taipei in June; Taiwanese actress Shu Qi; and the award-winning English translation of the novel Taiwan Travelogue.
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On the big screen, Michael Douglas walks out onto a city street in the rain but has difficulty opening his umbrella. His fumbling with the brolly draws the fateful attention of Glenn Close in this pivotal scene from the 1987 movie Fatal Attraction.
“Made in Taiwan!”, the Douglas character says of the umbrella in exasperation.
