Nov 3, 2019
4 min read
‘Your Wife’s a Nigger, Eh?’
Prelude to the Photo-essay ‘Ancient Chinese Secret’
In Chungking Express (1994), a busty Chinese barkeep in a curve-hugging mini-dress and a strawberry blonde wig clanks a coin into a glittering Wurlitzer jukebox stationed a few feet from the bar.
Moments later, the rock-steady reggae of Dennis Brown’s “Things in Life” begins to churn.
