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...epidemiology student at the Harvard School of Public Health and was the HGC vice-president of student affairs in 2004-05. Carrie Thiessen is a health policy student at the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and is a GSC health services representative. Harvard graduate students Betty Chan, Christine Jesser, and Matthew Zerden, who, with the authors, are members of the Graduate Student Task Force on Student Dental Coverage, also contributed to this...
...Peter Chan says he doesn't actually like musicals, which is not something you'd expect to hear from the filmmaker helming the first musical to be shot in mainland China for four decades. But nowadays only the biggest Asian movies seem to survive at the box office, so when the Hong Kong-based director sat down to plan his first Chinese film in years, he decided to wrap a small love story in a musical coat. "It was like the sugar that helps you draw the audience back into the theater," he says. "But I had no idea what...
...Truth Is as Beautiful as Fiction Chan, best known for the handover-era drama Comrades: Almost a Love Story, can stop worrying. The early word is that his musical, Perhaps Love, is brilliant. The $10 million movie was selected for the closing spot in the Venice Film Festival before Chan had finished post-production. (The movie will be released in December.) Indie icon Takeshi Kaneshiro (House of Flying Daggers), pop idol Jacky Cheung (Ashes of Time) and luminous mainlander Zhou Xun (The Little Chinese Seamstress) star as actors in contemporary Shanghai filming a musical set in the decadent 1930s...
...Eason Chan U87 Always restless, Eason Chan is looking to shed his boyish appeal and usher in the next generation of Canto-pop. His latest album, U87, is a bridge between past and future, showing off a rawness rarely found in Chinese pop and laced with the catchy, if corny, love songs that Hong Kongers have waved their glowsticks to since the '80s. He marks his rebellion with the track Bad Habit as he sings of refusing to give up his beloved cigarettes. Having finally won his musical independence after 10 years on the circuit, it doesn't look like...
...Harvard-educated Ma beat out the speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, in a contest to take the reins of the once dominant KMT, which has lost two consecutive elections to President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. The KMT, buoyed by outgoing chairman Lien Chan's recent high-profile tour of mainland China, hopes that Ma will steer the party back to power in 2008, when many expect he will run for President himself...