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...Until 1967, Hong Kong films were largely musicals and comedies headed by female stars. But that was B.C.C.: before CHANG CHEH . With his 1967 One-Armed Swordsman, Chang created a scowling hero who turned his disability into a vengeance?and Hong Kong film into the violent, burly, balletic male preserve it has been ever since. Born Chang Yi-ying in China's Zhejiang province, this energetic craftsman wrote romance novels, film reviews and a newspaper column under three different pseudonyms. Then he set about defining the Hong Kong action movie. Such swaggering epics as The Savage 5, Shaolin Avengers...
...Quincy: Wenya L. Bi, Kathy Chang, Ross G. Douthat, Michael L. Faye, Jeffrey P. Filippini, Claire E. Herrick, Julie L. Rattey, Andrew J. Rosenfeld, Emma C. Samelson-Jones, Bridget E. Tenner, Steven C. Wu, Allen T. Yancy and Jesse G. Zalatan...
...blockbuster film Titanic. DIED. STEPHEN JAY GOULD, 60, paleontologist whose theory of evolution challenged that of Charles Darwin's, of cancer; in New York City. Gould, who famously called human evolution "a fortuitous cosmic afterthought," authored The Mismeasure of Man and The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. DIED. CHANG CHANG, 35, the world's oldest captive giant panda, of multiple organ failure; in Jinan, China. Chang Chang's body will be preserved and put on display in the northwestern province of Gansu. DIED. NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE, 71, French pop artist and creator of the Nanas sculptures; in San Diego. Saint...
Ever since Jung Chang's Wild Swans became a global publishing sensation, booksellers have decided that the Beautiful Chinese Literary Heroine is a golden goose. I don't know if there's an official literary term for this genre yet, but let's call it Chinese Chick Lit. If you look at books like Adeline Yen Mah's Falling Leaves and Anhua Gao's To the Edge of the Sky, you'll find a basic formula: a feisty, exotically gorgeous woman suffers hell. Hell comes in the form of an oppressive regime (usually the Cultural Revolution) or through abuse inflicted...
...dusty street-side caf?s, a smattering of dreadlocked types sport vaguely disappointed looks, as though they've missed the party; they make do with bottles of Beer Chang instead of the opium pipes they had perhaps hoped for. "This is a bit of a bummer, man," moans Robert, a goateed 25-year-old traveler from New Jersey, sporting a knitted cap in Jamaican colors, as he tucks into a plate of oily phad thai. "I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this," he says, as a bus disgorges a load of German package tourists...