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...story "Pan-Asian Sensation" [Oct. 6] misspelled the name of Turn Left Turn Right director as Johnny To. His name should be spelled Johnnie To. Also, Takeshi Kaneshiro's name in Mandarin should read Jin Chengwu, not Kin Chengwu as it appeared in the text...
...Kaneshiro's ability to act convincingly in several tongues helps explain his pan-Asian appeal. Because the characters of his name are read differently across the region, he's known as Kam Shing-mo in Cantonese, Kin Chengwu in Mandarin and Kim Sung Moo in Korean. "I feel weird sometimes," he says as he sips iced coffee in a secluded hotel caf? in Tokyo. "When people call me Mr. Kam, I'm like, who is Mr. Kam? Or they call me Mr. Kim, and I have to remind them that I'm not Korean." He admits his shape-shifting attributes...
...face the enemy, but there is not half a single reason for a split." As if to make concrete the spirit of national unity and the rejection of factionalism, 13 high-ranking army officers purged during the Cultural Revolution were rehabilitated last month. The most important of them, Yang Chengwu and Yu Li-chin, were purged in 1968 for sending squads of soldiers to attack the Cultural Revolution headquarters and arresting members of the Cultural Revolutionary leadership...
...three, all of whom were removed from their posts, were important men indeed: General Yang Chengwu, who as acting chief of the general staff had been second only to Lin Piao in the military hierarchy; General Yu Li-chin, the political commissar of China's air force; and General Fu Chung-pi, commander of the army's vital Peking garrison. All three had taken an active part in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution that has been tearing China apart, and all three were appointed to their jobs by Lin Piao...
...appointment was not made. As "Little Hsu" continued to wait for his train, a shot rang out through the darkness and he fell dead. The next day General Lu Chengwu, son of the man whom "Little Hsu" had murdered at Tientsin, blazoned abroad a proclamation that he had at last avenged his father...
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