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...unwitting embodiment of stereotypical Asian female behavior--"diminutive, submissive, that whole geisha thing you get tagged with," she says. (It's a typical problem for Asian women executives, although one that few employers recognize, says Jane Hyun, an executive coach and author of Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: "Here, we say the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Well, there's a Chinese proverb that says the loudest duck gets shot.") At the boot camp, Ho networked with other GE executives who urged her to be more aggressive. It recently helped her land a tough assignment as chief operating officer for equipment...
Abhinand Lath recalls being particularly moved by a poem by an 11th century Japanese woman who described strolling through a young bamboo forest so delicate that her movements caused the stalks and their shadows to change colors. Bamboo happened to be the topic of Lath's master's thesis in architecture at the University of Michigan. Yet the poem, and the idea of colors subtly changing through variances in movement and light, stuck with...
...strutting vamp with an ingénue who saunters diffidently down the runway in a shrunken black pantsuit or a flirty 1940s floral print dress. Yet the ingénue carries one accessory still redolent of the Ford era: the handbags. There were top-handled purses in crocodile with bamboo toggles, a leitmotiv of the house, and tiny clutches with gold logos. And even a fashion ingénue - whether the new Gucci girl or the designer that dispatched her down the runways - knows that handbags are money-spinners. Giannini herself has already proved that at Gucci, where accessories sales...
...historical import has diminished. That's a positive thing, a sign of how profoundly the U.S.-China relationship has deepened in three decades. When Deng Xiaoping met Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized open: full diplomatic relations between the two countries were only four weeks old, and the first imports from China?lots of wicker baskets?were just hitting American stores. Today, the U.S. and China trade more than $200 billion in goods a year: American families watch televisions...
...Working from eyewitness accounts and drawings, Stevenson constructed a full-scale replica from new castings of original torpedo-shaped fuel tanks, and a World War II parachute purchased on eBay. Tied together with hemp rope and bamboo, The Gift, as the sculpture is called, forms the oddly beautiful center of an exhibition around which the artist has placed other "relics" from the voyage, including maps meticulously hand-painted by Stevenson. Starting off in Sydney last May, "Argonauts of the Timor Sea" traveled to the U.K. in November, where the artist recruited a band of local Sea Scouts to (unsuccessfully) sail...