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...unavoidable. No newspaper, no matter how respectable, can escape the popular expectation of "scandal exposed" that the tabloids have trademarked. If readers don't get infamy uncovered for their buck, they'll stop buying the paper. As a result, even the best papers have responded as any good capitalist ventures would--they have started lowering the quality of their reporting in order to attract readers...
...then, Communist filmmakers tried entertaining the masses with what the official press derisively called "the most flagrant offspring of the capitalist pleasure industry": musical comedies. East Side Story is the history of that glorious, doomed attempt to create an all-singing, all-dancing genre within the unsmiling dictates of socialist realism...
...values guaranteed by the Basic Law, a kind of miniconstitution it approved along with Britain in April 1990. China's leaders put their names to a document maintaining the rule of law, an independent judiciary, civil liberties including the right to peaceful protest, a free press, continuation of the capitalist system, a separate identity in international economic bodies, local control over currency and no taxation by Beijing...
...their salvation. If they had their choice, they'd retreat to 1955 rather than grapple with today's complicated reforms. "We respect Mao, not Deng," says Liang. "Deng forgot about us." The people of Shenyang resent the way the city has been left behind by the capitalist advances in Shanghai and Guangzhou. At Liang's old workplace, his friends sit around all day grousing, drinking tea and reading the papers until the shift whistle blows. "We call it the nonworking day," he says. "The managers are screwing things up, and they have to leave. It's not our fault there...
...what is more crucial than finding and utilizing the ammunition of intellectual resistance is discovering the will to challenge authority. Harvard generally teaches its students that upon graduation they are to seize the rewards available to capitalist elites, not that they are responsible for identifying American dilemmas and agitating to solve them. One of the few voices of dissent at the College is Professor Cornel West, who writes that America is currently a "twilight civilization" that is in dire need of fundamental re-evaluation...