Queues for sold-out Singapore screenings of “Dear You”, a mostly Teochew-language mainland Chinese film, reveal attachments to ethnic Chinese dialects that decades of state policy
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Though often declared dead, the discourse around ‘Asian values’ has had many lives. Authoritarian regimes have deployed culturalist arguments against liberal democracy since the 1990s,
The region’s close political and economic links to Beijing loom large in explanations of why it remains in the democratic doldrums. But overemphasis on the