HONG KONG — In the book accompanying her late husband’s retrospective, Tong Chiu Wai-yee says: “When people talk about Tong King-sum, they focus on his flawed body alongside his artistic achievement.”
Author Archives: Keith Plocek
Keith Plocek lives in Los Angeles. His writing has appeared in LA Weekly, Vice, McSweeney's, Mental Floss and Glasstire. He teaches at USC. Follow him on Twitter @KPLO.
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Family Portraits Left Incomplete
HO CHI MINH CITY — Trong Gia Nguyen was only three years old when he was crammed into a Renault Dauphine with 13 other family members and driven to the Saigon docks on April 30, 1975.