Word: chen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chen Weijun won't win any prestigious prizes for the TV shows he produces for the local TV station in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. His reports on patriotic celebrations and official history lessons are the standard, sanitized fare characteristic of China's government programming. But that's just his day job. The filming Chen really cares about?what he calls "the most important thing I've done in my life"?he does surreptitiously in his spare time...
...networks sent stars into the gulf. That's great when the star is Ted Koppel, racing toward Baghdad with the 3rd Infantry and doing effortlessly intelligent long reports. It's not so terrific when the star is CBS's Julie Chen, who can't control an interview on the hermetically sealed set of Big Brother, much less in a war zone...
Three years ago the Chinese artist Chen Zhen died at 45 after a years-long struggle with an autoimmune form of anemia. The work of his last years is the subject of a moving show this month at P.S. 1, the Museum of Modern Art affiliate in Queens. Jue Chang--Fifty Strokes to Each, from 1998, is typical of Chen's mix of Chinese traditions and modern-art formats, in this case a massive installation work. The title refers to a Buddhist maxim--50 blows to both opponents in any conflict. That's supposed to be a way for them...
...Empress, from 1872, and Daido Moriyama's feral Stray Dog, from 99 years later. The sheer multitude of Asian sensibilities is the first lesson that the explosion of Asian art has to teach. Perhaps because they come from traditionalist cultures, even many younger Asian artists produce work that, like Chen's, acknowledges the history and long-standing cultural practices of their homelands. But preconceptions about the Japanese gift for wabi--refined simplicity--will get you nowhere with the dancing cartoon mushrooms of the post-Pop artist Takashi Murakami. A very visible figure on the international art circuit, Murakami decked...
...unsuspecting carrier thought to have caught the virus at the Metropole was Chinese-American businessman Johnny Chen. He left Hong Kong for Hanoi on Feb. 24, quickly fell ill and was evacuated back to Hong Kong, where he became the disease's first known fatality outside China. While in Vietnam, he infected at least 61 others, many of them medical staff at the Hanoi hospital where he was treated. Another Metropole guest, an elderly tourist from Canada, carried the disease back to Toronto. There, she infected five family members, including her son, who in turn infected two others. Mother...