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...turnips?in honor of Deng's famous economic axiom: It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.) The culinary allusions continue with the dessert offerings: yuan xiao, rice-paste dumplings stuffed with peanuts and black sesame, are listed as Chiang Kai-shek's balls. Elegance is combined with camp: an antique telephone on a lounge table is wired to play a recording of Mao's voice. The house wine, a French Bordeaux carrying the Red Capital label, is described in the menu as "appropriate for any party or mass gathering...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK He was the leader who had unified most of China under a reformist government. She was a daughter of the eminent, Western-oriented Soong family who became his effective propagandist in the U.S. Though they had been forced to flee the Japanese invasion in 1937, TIME saluted them for forging a Chinese "national consciousness...
...martial arts classic like Chang Cheh's The Heroic Ones or Chor Yuen's Killer Clans really look like? What did Hong Kong Nocturne and other Shaw musical extravaganzas sound like? What made audiences fall in love with such prime Shaw stars as Linda Lin Dai, David Chiang, Cheng Pei-pei and the dynamite Tina Ti? Could anyone today actually sit through the film version of a Huangmei opera like The Kingdom and the Beauty...
...world knows Hong Kong for its martial arts movies, and the first Celestial collection has three of the best. Come Drink With Me (1966), The Heroic Ones (1970) and Killer Clans (1976) all bubble with betrayal, with roguish good guys (notably the boyishly take-charge Chiang in The Heroic Ones) whose hands are quicker than their opponents' eyes, and with plot twists as unexpected as the trap doors that open for all manner of malefactors in Killer Clans. The stunt work is exhilarating, the narrative ingenuity inexhaustible...
...home, moreover, Beijing has plenty to preoccupy it. Unemployment is high and rising, and economic inequalities are widening more rapidly in China than in any other major country. Many Chinese complain that corruption is worse now than under Chiang Kai-shek. The impulse to address this is seen in the recent arrest of some of China's wealthiest citizens and those accused of being their official patrons. The political system desperately needs reform. And China's leadership will take time to gel?even though now, with his key prot?g? Zeng Qinghong apparently ready to accede to the Politburo's Standing...