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"The visible foot is treading on the invisible hand." WU JINGLIAN, Chinese economist, bemoaning the bureaucracy and opposition to reform that he said are hurting China's economic growth, during last week's National People's Congress in Beijing

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

"We urge the United States government to face squarely their own human rights problems, reflect on their own actions, take practical measures and improve their human rights situation." CHINESE GOVERNMENT REPORT highlighting U.S. rights issues, including its domestic wiretapping controversy and high prison population. Beijing issued its critique to counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

Nearer to Beijing, the resorts are fancier, offering everything from Swiss-style chalets to trails in the shadow of the Great Wall. But few of the runs are long enough to take more than a minute to complete. Local topography is hilly rather than mountainous and poses little challenge to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powder to the People | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

When Ang Lee thanked "everybody in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China" last week while accepting a Best Director Oscar for his gay-cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain, the mainland returned the love. The state-run China Daily called Lee "the pride of the Chinese people all over the world" and "the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Oscar Goes To ... China? | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

Amidst complaining how “Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages,” Ulrich also related an anecdote about students visiting from Beijing University. They had a solid command of hard facts, but did...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: The Case for History 10a | 3/13/2006 | See Source »

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