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Lingman, who worked with the same trainer that prominent American tennis players like Jim Courier and Michael Chang employed during their careers, trained extensively—jumping rope and doing water work, strength training and other cardiovascular work—to get in premier shape this summer...
...curtain is finally lifting. Last week Seoul announced the ban would be removed on Jan. 1, 2004 (although a decision on TV shows and animated films is still pending). Culture and Tourism Minister Lee Chang Dong declared that "brisk cultural exchange between Korea and Japan is the shortcut to increasing mutual understanding...
...native Taiwanese, I understand how prominent Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang felt as he showed his love for his home farming village of Wuri by depicting the dramatic changes to it. Though I have been living here for 23 years and am not part of the diaspora, I can relate my own boyhood to Chang's photos of rural Taiwan. Life has improved greatly, and what surrounded me back in the old days is all long gone. Through Chang's black-and-white photos, a brief history of Taiwan is on display. Roger Cheng Taipei...
...RETIREMENT ANNOUNCED. Michael Chang, 31, tennis player known for his incredible hustle and for being one of the first Asian-Americans to make it in the game; after losing to Fernando Gonzales of Chile in the first round of the U.S. Open; in Flushing Meadows, New York. After turning pro at age 17, Chang burst into the tennis world with a win at the French Open in 1989. In 1997, he was the No. 2 tennis player in the world. Chang said he would devote his time to promoting tennis in Asia...
...Chang is at her weakest when writing about the history of China itself. Her sketch of the country her subjects left behind reads sometimes like an overly romantic travel guide and at others like a nationalistic mainland textbook. On one page, China's borders include Tibet and Xinjiang (which were by no means part of China throughout all 5,000 years); two pages later, without respecifying her geographic boundaries, she writes that "out of the welter of dialects only one written language had emerged." What about Tibetan, Uighur, Mongolian? Chang is particularly hard on the Manchus, the northern-dwelling nomads...