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...launched not just a book but a genre: confessional, and often sexually charged, works of fiction and nonfiction by young, neophyte women trying to capture the Zeitgeist of hard and fast living in a roller-coaster China. The latest to let it all hang out is teenage iconoclast Chun Sue's Beijing Doll. This semiautobiographical novel, first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author. For Chun, school is an annoyance that keeps her from...
...Chun's world is an apolitical but noisy place where Sonic Youth and REM share the soundscape with homegrown alt-rock bands like Pangu and PK14. It's a world where doting parents indulge their spoiled children?Chun's mother takes her from Beijing to Kaifeng to mingle with SpermOva, a punk band she adores, and stays alone in a guesthouse until Chun is ready to return to Beijing four nights later...
...makes you feel you're stuck on the phone with a mopey teenager who takes herself too seriously. The book is dense with melodramatic passages such as "I wanted to say that no one could plug the hole in my heart, that it was lost, that it was lonely." Chun's characters aspire to be individuals but can hardly be distinguished from one another, and the author offers scant insight into what drives them, other than their erratic mood swings...
...allied with the Uri Party, which won a majority in the National Assembly in last month's general elections. The party's sizeable left wing opposes Roh's decision to send 3,000 troops to Iraq by the end of June. Last week Uri Party floor leader Chun Jung Bae suggested that Korea might want to send money instead of men. "The influence of the antitroop dispatch, anti-Iraq war faction is growing," frets opposition lawmaker Won Hee Ryong, who fears a failure to send troops will erode Korea's security alliance with the U.S: "This is going...
...Happening was compiled by Nathan K. Burstein, Michelle Chun, Ben B. Chung, Adam C. Estes, Julie S. Greenberg, Tiffany I. Hsieh, Lucy F. Lindsey, Halsey R. Meyer, Mickey A. Muldoon, Douglas G. Mulliken, Will B. Payne, Gina C. Schwartz, Nate E. Smith, Sarah L. Solorzano, Benjamin J. Soskin, and Scoop A. Wasserstein...