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11	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lily_Wong.gif]]
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13	''[[http://www.lilywong.net/ The World of Lily Wong]]'' was a comic strip by Larry Feign, an American resident in Hong Kong. It ran in several Hong Kong newspapers from 1986 to 2001.
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15	The title character is a UsefulNotes/HongKong woman married to an American expatriate. The comic focuses on Lily's daily family and professional life, among her live-at-home parents, her ne'er-do-well brother, her henpecked husband and her ethnically mixed baby daughter. The name of the comic is a parodic ShoutOut to the classic movie ''Film/TheWorldOfSuzieWong''.
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18	!!Tropes:
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20	* AffectionateParody: A series of strips had [[WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire The Lost Shopping Mall of Atlantis]] and [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space aieeyaadyssey]]
21	* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: When Stuart's American parents come visiting, their behavior is so embarrassing that he puts on a disguise and pretends not to know them.
22	* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Lily is given one by a businessman after he hears she's related to a Communist Party official. "And so we're trying to get planning permission for this new industrial/office complex in Guilin ..."
23	* CaptainErsatz: [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones Meet the Fongstones]]. As quoted,
24	-->'''Rudy:''' ''[holding a video tape]'' [[LampshadeHanging Yet another Hong Kong rip-off of]] [[HollywoodHypeMachine over hyped]] [[CashCowFranchise successful]] [[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones foreign entertaiment product ...]]
25	* ComicBookTime: Subverted; Crystal ages in real time during the TimeSkip, but the rest of the cast looks the same.
26	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: One strip had Lily and Stuart's neighbours complain that because of Crystal's crying, they can't here themselves drilling.
27	* CourteousCanadian: Rudy tries to get guns from his white brother-in-law Stuart, citing that all Americans must have guns. When Stuart says he doesn't have any, Rudy laments that Stuart must actually be Canadian.
28	* CrossOver: One story arc featured ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers coming over to Hong Kong after hearing how the city was founded on dope smuggling.
29	%% * CultureClash: A usual punchline in the strips.
30	* {{Eagleland}}: Mixed Flavor of Beautiful and Boorish. On the Beautiful side, the country was portrayed to have wide open spaces and individual houses with gardens that Stuart missed while in urbanized Hong Kong. On the Boorish side, Americans are portrayed as ignorant to other cultures, paranoid, and rude (though the last part is questionable as [[CultureClash the Hong Kong Chinese]] has manners that can be seen as "rude" for non-Hong Kong people as well).
31	* ElvisLives: ... and is dictator of China! [[UsefulNotes/ToGetRichIsGlorious Deng]] later learns from party members that Qaddafi, Saddam and Slobodan Milosevic all claim to be Music/RickyNelson, Music/MarvinGaye and Music/JanisJoplin, respectively. Deng's response?
32	-->'''Deng:''' Think of the jam session we'd have!
33	-->'''Dictators:''' ''[Singing]'' [[Music/WeAreTheWorld We Rule the World ...]], [[RefugeInAudacity We Bomb the Children ...]]
34	* EducationMama: While in her doctor's waiting room, Lily meets an expecting mother who, even though her child is not even born yet, [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980126.htm has already decreed he will be a banker]].
35	%% * FriendingNetwork: Lily joins one in an arc and gets addicted.
36	* GreenAesop: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in a strip that has Rudy with a horse racing pamphlet versus a man in a suit littering newspaper pages.
37	* HelicopterParents: Lily's own parents don't hesitate to micromanage her personal life, which is all the easier since they live in the same flat.
38	%% * HenpeckedHusband: Stuart.
39	%% * HeroicBSOD: Stuart has this in [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc980518.htm a story arc]].
40	* InsultToRocks: In one series of strips, the story centers on the signs next to the elevator that says "No Dogs" and "No Filipinos," with all the maids, who happen to be Filipinas, being forced to, its heavily implied, go up dozens of floors up to their employers apartment. The arc ends with a number of Filipinos protesting the buildings racist policy, and the manager folds by taking down one of the signs. The protesters then begin to beat him and the concierge with their picket signs after they took down the wrong sign.
41	--> '''Manager:''' Why are they so mad? [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We're not compring them to dogs anymore!]]
42	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Discussed and pointed out:
43	-->'''Tokyo Ground Control:''' This is ground control ... For the 28th time, Hong Kong is '''not''' in Japan.
44	-->'''Co-Pilot:''' '''Listen, you lyin' S.O.B.! Let me remind you who won the war!'''
45	%% * TheInternetIsForPorn: This is obviously put up in a series of strips involving the internet.
46	* IWantGrandkids: An arc has Lily's dad begging for grandkids after playing mahjong with his friends. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope This is more in the lines of him]] FollowTheLeader.]]
47	%% * Manhua
48	%% * TheMafia: Rudy Joins the Mafia
49	* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: The main characters. Parodies some stereotypes. While Lily Wong is indeed married to a Westerner, she very much calls the shots in the relationship. Also referenced when Lily's husband shows up at the maternity:
50	-->'''Stuart:''' My wife ... ''[pant]'' baby ... ''[pant]'' bring me to her ...
51	-->'''Nurse:''' Not allow. You wait in here.
52	-->'''Stuart:''' But I'm the father!
53	-->'''Nurse:''' Sorry. Only hospital staff allow.
54	-->'''Stuart:''' But but but -- at least find out for me if it's born yet! And the sex! Ask the sex!
55	-->'''Nurse:''' ''[to her colleagues]'' Some gweilo out there interested in sex.
56	-->'''Other nurse:''' Aren't they all ...
57	* MultigenerationalHousehold: Three generations in the same flat.
58	%% * MoneyDearBoy: In-universe, most of the Hong Kongers are depicted as such.
59	%% * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Averted. Such figures as Deng Xiaoping and UsefulNotes/BillClinton appear as themselves.
60	%% * ObnoxiousInLaws
61	%% * OnlyInItForTheMoney: In-universe, most of the Hong Kongers are depicted as such.
62	* PopCultureIsolation: In universe, during an arc in which both Lily and Stuart can't bear each other's music tastes, but it makes their love stronger.
63	* ProductPlacement: Lily and Rudy appeared in a [[http://www.lilywong.net/archive/arc990517.htm couple of strips for Cathay Pacific]].
64	* ReincarnationRomance:
65	** Parodied in a story arc that depicted Stuart's previous incarnation as a British sailor at the time of the foundation of Hong Kong, and Lily as a haughty local lady.
66	** Exaggerated; The Psychic tells both Stuart and Lily that they were lovers since the beginning of time.
67	--->'''Cell!Stuart:''' Hoo-ee!, Looka that cute Hong Kong flu virus!
68	--->'''Cell!Lily:''' Keep your flagella to yourself, microbe breath!
69	%% * SexySecretary: Lily
70	* SexyStewardess: Conversed by Stuart as he and Lily are picking airlines.
71	-->'''Stuart:''' [[BlatantLies I'm merely making an informed choice based on information provided.]]
72	%% * TheSlacker: Rudy, Lily's lazy bum of a younger brother.
73	%% * SuddenlyBilingual: Both Lily and Stuart discover this, as Crystal cries differently to each of them.
74	* StrawFeminist: [[FunWithAcronyms G.I.R.L.]], the Gwaipo Infidelity Reduction League.
75	* TakeMeToYourLeader: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]
76	-->'''XYXYZ:''' Take us to Lu.
77	-->'''Lily:''' Lu Ping? but he's in Beijing! If you mean take you to our leader, that would be Patten. Unless you mean paramount leader Deng Xiaoping ...
78	-->'''XYXYZ:''' Tsk! Ask these Earthlings for a toilet, and they make a major case out of it!
79	* TimeSkip: Between its last printed newspaper strip and revival, 5 years pass, as shown in the first strip of the revival.
80	%% * TrappedByGamblingDebts: Happens plenty of times to Rudy.
81	%% * TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Of course.
82	* {{Tsundere}}: At first, Lily's very cold and rude to Stuart, scorning his obvious devotion. Even after they're married, she's not above delivering the occasional zinger.
83	* VacationEpisode: The cast goes to UsefulNotes/{{Singapore}} and visits Stuart's parents in Los Angeles.

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