No excuses

IT is a subdued, rainy Monday afternoon in November, the week after the 2016 United States presidential election, and 91-year-old Linda Tsao Yang is musing about the vote. Not so much about the results - a topic on which she clearly prefers to demur - but on history, Chinese proverbs and things worth struggling for. "It's been almost a hundred years since the US passed a law that allowed women to vote, which was in 1920," she says, reflectively.

"We've waited almost a hundred years to have a woman be a candidate for a major par…