Gangster life: Taiwan’s real-life Sopranos: "Lee “Fool-face” Chao-hsiung, a top godfather of the Taiwanese mob who died in March.
Lee went out in style last week, his body carried to a crematorium in a 108-car convoy of Rolls-Royces, Mercedes-Benzes and Beemers. As a nervous phalanx of police rolled videotape, the cream of Taiwan’s underworld filed past, joined by scores of politicians, female models and chanting, robed nuns and monks from the island’s top Buddhist groups.
Like their counterparts the world over, Taiwan’s gangsters boast colorful nicknames and truck in drugs, gun-running, prostitution, human trafficking, construction firm kickbacks, petty extortion and other racketeering"
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