![]() ![]() ![]() I know the average outfit in your wardrobe costs more than a semester of tuition at Princeton, but it makes you look like a community college during summertime: NO CLASS. We will take your most embarrassing biographical details and turn them into assets. Over the next few months, I intend to change the narrative about you. For instance, you can have 10 billion dollars, but still be considered nothing more than a speck of dirt by the Keungs, who are down to their last hundred million but can trace their lineage to the Duke of Yansheng. Which province of China did your family originate from? Which dialect group? Are you second-, third-, or fourth-generation rich? And how was the fortune made? Every minute detail matters. What matters more than ever now are bloodlines and when your family first made its money. Especially these days, when twentysomething Mainlanders have burst onto the scene with billions apiece, the old guard have resorted to new ways of stratifying themselves. Remember, for the crowd you seek to impress, your money means nothing. ![]() ![]() Let us be completely frank and start with the obvious: your former name was Kitty Pong, and you were not born on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, or any of the surrounding islands that make up the former British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. ![]()
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