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...aftermath of the Cultural Revolution—a period of mass cultural, political, and economic upheaval initiated by Mao Zedong—Chinese filmmakers sought to return to the perceived origins of their culture as a way of accounting for China??s contemporary problems. “They were asking, ‘Is anything wrong with the makeup of our culture that has led us to where we are now?’” Wang says. “[Filmmakers] had a lot of interest in going to frontier areas to observe the ethnic minorities?...
...Because the film’s release coincided with a transition in China??s national consciousness, “Yellow Earth” represents a mood and a filmmaking style that straddles two distinct eras, a socialist world of grand, heroic visions and a new, urbanized Chinese narrative...
...Year’s Day in 2003, Mike Kim left his comfortable job as a financial planner in Chicago and traveled to the border between North Korea and China??a place where thousands of North Koreans go to flee oppression and famine suffered under a closed communist government. He had no immediate plans to return. The eventual author of “Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country”—a book that documents his time trafficking North Korean refugees through a 6,000-mile modern...
...That’s why the primary thrust of the current Constellation program, which plans to build a permanent settlement on the moon as a stepping stone to Mars, seemed good on the surface. Its ambition rivals the Apollo program, and its announcement came on the heels of China??s first manned rocket launch, suggesting a new space race was underway. Constellation also seems to have the support of Congress, which this year proposed increasing funding for the program (at the expense of NASA’s science budget) in order to return to the moon...
...little to no scientific value to a permanent moon settlement. Mars is hardly realistic, because the lengthy cruise to get there would severely disfigure our astronauts. Prolonged habitation in zero-gravity environments might permanently cost astronauts a quarter of their skeleton due to osteoporosis. While many Americans view China??s space program as a threat, there is hardly enough political will necessary to fund such an ambitious proposal on a rapid timescale. The Orion capsules that will replace the space shuttle have already been delayed to 2015. It’s only a matter of time before waning...