Political Quiz ..Who Is The Dragon Lady??

[privateinvestor]

Hint........ this lady was born in China and is @ 42 years old and she has won over the hearts and minds in China....

[pdr79]

Are you talking about Rupert Murdoch's wife?

[mmhmm]

There have been countless "Dragon Ladies"; however, with the qualifiers it's got to be Wendi Deng (Mrs. Murdoch).

[privateinvestor]

Jul 20, 2011 9:33:10 GMT -5 pdr79 said:

Are you talking about Rupert Murdoch's wife?

Don't mess with Wendi Deng, Murdoch's 43-year-old Chinese-born wife. For most of today's hearing, Wendi sat demurely behind her husband, appropriately loyal and supportive, her salmon-colored jacket and royal blue blouse standing out in a sea of sober charcoal gray. But those who know Wendi were not surprised to see her leap into action to defend her man. When a man in a checkered shirt burst into the room—triggering alarm but seeming to paralyze many onlookers—and slammed a foam pie over Rupert Murdoch's face, it was his third wife—who was a volleyball player in her youth—who went on the offensive. Wendi lunged toward the attacker, pushing down a gray-clad woman in the way with her left hand and using her right arm to smack the guy on the top of his head.

If Wendi stole the show, it was a performance for which she could have been rehearsing all her life. Wendi might appear willowy and demure, but she's also tall—at least 5-foot-10—and extremely tough. She was born in the nondescript city of Xuzhou in coastal Jiangsu province in China in December 1968. That was a time of tumult and ugliness during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution when radical Red Guards persecuted intellectuals and "capitalist roaders" in bloody "criticism sessions" that sometimes ended in death. In fact, Wendi's Chinese name—Wen Di ("Cultural Enlightenment")—was not the name she was born with. At first, befitting the political environment at the time, her parents named her Wen Ge, meaning "Cultural Revolution," and it's a testament to the turmoil and struggle that swirled through Chinese society during her childhood.

Her father was a factory manager and engineer who was not particularly powerful or wealthy but a loyal Communist Party member nevertheless. With her parents, three sisters, and brother, Wendi lived in a modest three-room home. She wasn't especially distinguished at school, although she was an enthusiastic volleyball player, adept enough to become a member of the junior city team. All of which may explain the ease and speed with which she smacked down Rupert's attacker in today's hearing, and the adroit way in which she swept aside anyone who stood between her and her target.more

While today's performance could well be seen as the most important "slam dunk" of her life, Wendi has always been proactive and ambitious. When her family relocated to Guangzhou in southern China, she changed her name to Wen Di, enrolled in medical school but quit, and then befriended an American family, the Cherrys. Like her ow
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[handyman2]

Glad that was not me and my wife. She would have shot the guy.

[safeharbor37]

The adventure begins with young Terry Lee, "a wide-awake American boy," arriving in contemporary China with his friend, two-fisted journalist Pat Ryan.... He developed an ever larger circle of friends and enemies,...Most notable of all was the famed femme fatale, the Dragon Lady, who started as an enemy and later, during the war (WWII), became an ally.... The phrase "Dragon Lady" entered American slang as a phrase for a powerful and domineering woman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_and_the_Pirates_(comic_strip)

Caniff became increasingly concerned by the contemporary Second Sino-Japanese War, but he was prevented by his syndicate from identifying the Japanese directly. Caniff referred to them as "the invaders",...

Maybe Political Correctness has deeper roots than we usually think.

[privateinvestor]

Here's another Dragon Lady from pre WW2 Days

[deziloooooo]

My age is showing from "Terry and the Pirates "....

Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search

The first Terry and the Pirates Sunday page was launched on December 9, 1934.Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff’s work on the children's adventure strip Dickie Dare and hired him to create the new adventure strip, providing Caniff with the title and locale. (The precise reason behind including "the Pirates" in the title is a subject of some debate, but see Dragon Lady (stereotype) for one plausible version).

The daily strip began October 22, 1934, with the Sunday color pages beginning December 9, 1934. Initially, the storylines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different, but on August 26, 1936 they merged into a single storyline. In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates.[1]

[pappyjohn99]

Damn. I was thinking Nancy Pelosi.

[EVT1]

Did you think a billionaire would date a lady his age (think hugh hefner)- it was funny as hell- daily show nailed it. F the old bastard he is trying to blame everything on his minions. Note to asshole- you are responsible.

[privateinvestor]

The Flying Tigers flew in China and were hired and paid for by Madame Chang Khi Shek. She passed in 2003 and lived a long and very eventual life to say the least.. She was not only a Dragon Lady but also a very brave women whose husband was ousted by the Chinsese Communist in China in 1949...

Anyone these Chinese Dragon Ladies have one thing in common..."Don't Mess With Their Husbands"........must be a Chinese tradition or part of their culture...