Dean was ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East.

Mahbubani, dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, is the author of the New Asian Hemisphere: the Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East.

And if you want to look like James Dean in "East of Eden" or Jean-Paul Belmondo in "Breathless" - oh, never mind.