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...fetched, if not downright silly. They also prevent a simple enjoyment of the book - its pleasant pastoral passages are sooner or later interrupted by jarring expositions that wouldn't look out of place in a 19th century manual of eugenics. Here's one from the novel's main character, Chen Zhen...
...inevitable that China will evolve into a freer society," says Jiang. But curiously there is no such optimism in the book. The wolves - those symbols of perfect freedom - are exterminated by officials as part of a plan to turn the grasslands over to large-scale farming, and Chen Zhen, the protagonist, can find only hackneyed, metaphysical solace as he meditates upon a wolf-cub pelt, imagining the cub's spirit in "the place where all the souls of Mongolian wolves that had died in battles over the millennia congregated." One is left wondering if millions of Chinese readers also believe...
...vote, he tried to capitalize on Beijing's crackdown on anti-Chinese protests in Tibet by suggesting Taiwan could face the same end. "As we look at Tibet, we must think about our own fate," Hsieh said. The approach echoed that of Ma's predecessor, outgoing DPP President Chen Shui-bian, who pursued a series of policies aimed at bolstering Taiwan's sense of independence...
...However, Chen's actions irritated Beijing, whose leaders are highly sensitive to any challenge to their claims over the island, and, in the eyes of many in Taiwan, further isolated the country from the rest of Asia politically and economically. Businessmen hope that Ma's policies will help boost an economy that has struggled to provide jobs and improve the standard of living of Taiwan's 23 million people by allowing them to take fuller advantage of a high-growth Chinese market. Ma's victory will also be welcomed in Washington. He has vowed to repair Taipei's relationship with...
...assignment letter.“They came in blowing these horns and yelling,” she said. “It was crazy.”Yesterday was the first time House residents, and not administrators, delivered residential assignment letters to freshman dorms.Dunster House Committee Co-Chair Anna Chen ’09—whose contingent greeted freshmen with a large anthropomorphic moose—said that the outcome of the new delivery arrangement was positive on the whole.“I think the freshmen were very surprised to have a lot of people show...