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...China and the World Stage John Lee's clear reminder of China's vastly different historical perspective versus that of the U.S. is a point not made often enough [March 8]. Where the U.S. sees a four-year electoral cycle, China is still making decisions with generations in mind. Lee misses one key factor, though, regarding China's seemingly silent role on the world stage: rather than seeing it as beneath them, China's leaders have avoided interfering in other countries' affairs for the simple reason that they don't want anyone having reason to interfere with their...
...Eric Abrahamsen, a Beijing-based translator of modern Chinese fiction, it is clear that Mo Yan engages in the complex calculus of what is and isn't permissible that faces every Chinese writer. There is nothing wrong with that: not every artist has the stomach for strident dissent and, having been banned in the past, Mo Yan has nothing to prove. But these days, says Abrahamsen, Mo Yan "knows exactly where the lines are and doesn't cross them." Discussion about the drawbacks of the one-child policy, and whether it should be rolled back, is now permissible in China...
...Whatever the reason, Mo Yan makes it clear that his fiction will stay rooted in Gaomi - or rather his historical version of it. The novel he is contemplating next, for example, will be centered around a siege of the town during the 1930s, when China was riven with warlord rivalry...
...hard to be responsible," she explains. "To have done my homework. So when I come [to a rehearsal] I have a fairly clear path to suggest we go on. But I do believe that I respect the people I work with...
...Whatever the outcome of the particular battles over constitutional powers and various court cases, what remains clear is that Justice Chaudhry, while holding an office that is ostensibly above politics, will remain in the thick...