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...Although it remains his touchstone, Mo Yan acknowledges that the gritty modern Gaomi is very different from the midcentury, rural township of his fiction - a place where peasants ride stoic donkeys and heavily laden camels walk the dusty streets. Film buffs may know it from Zhang Yimou's 1988 adaptation of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, set during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote...
...Britain's manufacturing prowess - and the way in which shifts in the global economy can strip a place of jobs like a hurricane takes leaves off a tree - then its main street captures a national mood of hopelessness and anger. All of Britain is in a deep funk: although its economy is finally growing after a prolonged recession, that growth is so tender that many fear it will shrivel and give way to a second, deeper contraction. Britons are downcast, their politicians discredited. In one of the world's oldest democracies, there's little enthusiasm for the national and local...
...That's not as bad as some pundits predicted, but the ranks of the long-term unemployed have swelled to levels not seen since 1997, and the number of people working part time because they're unable to find full-time employment has reached a new record. Although the pound has lost a quarter of its value against the dollar since 2008, Britain's global goods deficit actually widened in January, with exports declining 6.9%. A weaker pound means the U.K. has to pay more for imports like fuel, increasing fears of inflation. (See pictures of London...
Fool's Gold That distant El Dorado may have enriched only some Britons, but the turbulence shaking it is felt by everyone. There's little agreement among politicians or economists about quite how much of a basket case Britain has become. "Although the economy is now growing, recovery is still in its early stages and remains very fragile," Brown said in a March 10 speech in the City. Labour says the recovery is due to the government's lead in global efforts to stabilize the banking system and its $30 billion of fiscal stimulus and argues that stimulus spending must...
Gourmet food trucks are democratizing the local- and slow-food trends that started with restaurateur Alice Waters in Berkeley, Calif., and were spread by the Food Network. Although the goal of these trucks is to be quick, convenient and cheap, they are decidedly anti--fast food. They're about dispensing Alice Waters food in a McDonald's manner...