Search Details

Word: daguanlou (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Party goes about celebrating itself, few people around here can muster much interest. A few blocks away, the Daguanlou cinema presents the film CEO, a docudrama about refrigerator-maker Haier's aggressive move into the U.S. market. The Party forced movie houses to carry it as part of a nationalistic film festival pegged to the congress. In one showing the evening before the congress opened, a saintly Haier manager breaks off negotiations with a rapacious American who sneers that he'll "buy flowers for the graves" of his Chinese competitors. As the scene ends halfway through the screening, the entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepwalking Through Chinese History | 11/11/2002 | See Source »

| 1 |