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...limiting each city household to a single dog, and limiting its size. While the regulations have existed in various forms for years, enforcement has been lax until recently. Many owners of oversize dogs had previously simply walked their German shepherds and golden retrievers under cover darkness. But a recent crackdown by Beijing police - ostensibly aimed at curbing rabies, a rash of attacks and other canine nuisances - has dog owners fearful that their dogs will be confiscated and possibly mistreated or even put down while in police custody. Police are taking no chances: They have set up special reporting hotlines...
...unlikely rebels: Xiaomei, for example, is the very model of a law-abiding Chinese and wouldn't dream of doing anything that might get her into trouble. But she nevertheless joined hundreds of protesters who showed up at the entrance to Beijing Zoo on November 12 to protest the crackdown. She says that riot police outnumbered the protesters, and while there were a few scuffles, the protest passed off peacefully enough...
...sign of changing times in China. Once the reviled symbol of bourgeois indulgence during China's Cultural Revolution and largely wiped out, pet dogs - there are an estimated million or more in Beijing - now provide comfort and status to a rapidly swelling middle class. So, the canine crackdown has provoked a struggle that pits the power of Beijing's newly rich against the reflexive authoritarianism of the ruling Communist Party. Just how the contest plays out will provide telling insight into how Chinese society is adapting to the seismic shifts brought by years of booming economic growth...
...appetizing title, The Uninvited. It is the first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born novelist (The Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen's 1998 art-house hit Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl. Yan emigrated to the U.S. after the 1989 Beijing crackdown and now lives in San Francisco, where she is a leading figure in China's post-Tiananmen literary diaspora. Others include best-selling novelists like Ha Jin (Waiting) and Ma Jian (Red Dust), as well as newcomers such as Da Chen (whose Brothers came out in September). Like many...
...prospect of an Ortega victory has Washington alarmed - especially after the Reagan Administration had worked so obsessively in the 1980s to topple the Sandinistas, and because the Bush Administration had urged Aleman's prosecution as part of a wider crackdown on corruption in Latin America. Ortega is also a friend of Bush's hemispheric archfoes, Cuba's communist leader Fidel Castro and Venezuela's radical leftist President Hugo Chavez. The Bush Administration, in fact, has warned that if Ortega wins it may cut U.S. aid to Nicaragua...