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Toys with a Made-in-China provenance aren't always cheap, mass-produced bits of plastic. In Beijing, a smattering of artisans is keeping the age-old traditions of handcrafted toys alive, and their intricately painted kites, colorful cloth animals and hand-painted clay figures are more than mere objects for children's entertainment-they also showcase delightful aspects of China's enduring folk culture...
...next piece, “On the Verge,” was an angst-filled solo choreographed and performed by Marin J. D. Orlosky ’07-’08. Orlosky climbed, turned, and achieved some truly acrobatic feats while suspended from two sheaths of cloth hung from the ceiling...
While the difficulty of the choreography was certainly appreciated—at one moment, Orlosky did the splits about nine feet in the air, with one band of cloth wrapped around each ankle—the performance was too studied to be truly enjoyable. Orlosky had some trouble navigating the sheaths of cloth, and these moments of fumbling detracted from the overall performance...
...gangster. He is, he says, a respectable businessman from Fujian's interior who settled in the Czech Republic in the early 1990s and started a textile import company. That was just after the Berlin Wall had fallen, and it was easy for an enterprising Fujianese to sell cheap cloth to Czechs. Today, he has upgraded his trading from cloth to people. Willing people, he insists. "There are too many people in China, so we have to go abroad to make money," he says. "And in Europe, the people are old or lazy, so they need to import cheap labor...
...waste of their lives. The kamikaze, after all, did nothing to stop the American war machine from bearing down on Japan. Sending them to their death as suicide bombers was as brutally absurd as the "bulletproof" vest on display in the museum that is nothing more than a cloth shirt stitched with coins from shrines. It's bad enough to lie to foreign countries; to perpetuate that lie to your own people seems unforgivable...