The Windup Girl cliff notes again chapters 2 - 4

Chapter 2: The aftermath of Anderson killing the megadont as told by his employee and 2nd in command, Hock Seng. Hock Seng is a "yellow card", a Chinese Malayan(No, I don't know why not Malaysian, Paulie doesn't like explaining stuff) refugee from the "Incident". Yellow Cards are allowed to be in Thailand but they're not allowed to take jobs that could conceivably go to Thais so they seem to primarily be beggars.

 The megadont rampage and death caused oodles of damage that will require more money from the investors for repairs, bribes, and brahmins/feng shui practitioners. In 8 pages Hock Seng refers to his boss as "foreign devil" or just "devil" 16 times, as yang guizi(foreign devil) 18 times, and even simply as "the creature" several times. Also, to him, Thais are lazy and stupid. He plots to steal proprietary blueprints from the main office. (An entire page is devoted to him wondering if the safe got left open in the chaos. It didn't.) I'm not sure if he's supposed to be an antagonist or just an asshole but he lets us know Anderson is a blond with "watery devil pool eyes." And he compares foreigners to aliens and petulant children. (Is this supposed to turn Western stereotypes about Asians and Westerners on their heads or is that just me? Because that's not clever.) I'm pretty sure we're supposed to dislike him but that's actually not clear yet. Anderson does kind of act like a petulant child but we still haven't had much substantial from his point of view.

 So recap. Damage is assessed (not good), megadont is cut up for transport, Hock Seng is a bigoted jerk who plans to steal from his employer.

 Chapter 3: An introduction to Emiko, the titular Windup Girl. She's a New Person, genetically engineered in Japan as a secretary (glanced over) and elite sex doll (important part). Her skin is so smooth that her pores are too minuscule to allow much sweating and she easily overheats in the tropical environment. She moves in jerky movements due to her programming and is basically unable to say no. Can you see where this is going?

She was sold to the unappreciative Raleigh to work in his club/brothel where she is regularly abused by patrons and co-workers alike. She hates her life. So. This chapter she is humiliated, raped on stage with a dildo, and brought to "papa-san's" office to meet with a gold-haired foreigner with corpse-pale skin and acid pool blue eyes. (Hello, Anderson.) She's ordered to tell him about a customer she had who told her about his gene-ripping aunt and a gene engineer name Gi Bu Sen. Anderson tells her that there are Windup enclaves to the North where her kind live free. She regains the will to live.

 Chapter 4: New character! Captain Jaidee Rajjanasukchai works for the Environment Ministry. He protects Thailand from farang(foreigners) and trade. Dirty, dirty trade. He and his 2nd, Kanya, are at the airfields shaking down customs officials from the Ministry of Trade. 200,000 baht to let in the foreign crates without inspection. And that's twice these guys have had to pay a bribe. But what's this? Oh no! Jaidee is the "Tiger of Bangkok", protector of the Kingdom and completely un-bribable. Though apparently he isn't above stealing. He has his men raid the dirigibles and burn the cargo.

When he gets home his wife worries he goes too far but he remarks that he is in the child queen's good graces which makes him harder to touch. So he hates foreigners and free trade, the root of all evil, and he's willing to be pissy about it. You know, I don't like any of these characters. They are all contemptuous of anyone they perceive as "other" and are very self-righteous about it. I don't know about Anderson yet as his chapter didn't actually give us much of a look at him personally but I'm willing to bet he's similar. Though it won't be presented as such, I'm sure. Also, stop peppering foreign, italicized words throughout the text for no real reason. Yes, we're in Asia. It's exotic. I get it.