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...mantle worn by venerable directors like Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Raise the Red Lantern). Zhang helped introduce Chinese cinema to global audiences, first with finely rendered political allegories and then with more muscular martial-arts epics. On the other hand, Xu--a factory owner's daughter who grew up in go-go China--focuses on what she knows and feels. In her 2002 directorial debut, My Father and I, she explored the upended Confucian hierarchy of contemporary urban Chinese society. That effort, in which she also played the leading role, was followed last year by A Letter from...
...never met anyone who wears the clothes she makes. For nearly two years the 20-year-old rice farmer's daughter has worked at the Chaida Garment Factory in the steamy southern Chinese city of Kaiping, stitching seams on winter jackets for such companies as Timberland. Amid the clatter of sewing machines, surrounded by mountains of down vests headed for the U.S., Liu tries to imagine the people whose wardrobes have given her a job. "They must be very tall and very rich," she muses. "But beyond that, I really can't picture what their lives are like...
...insight. The crux of the book is Eshun's discovery about his great-great-great-great-great-grandfather. Joseph de Graft, a Dutch slave trader and an ancestor of Eshun's on his mother's side, settled in Ghana in the 1750s and married a local chief's daughter. When De Graft left for the Netherlands, his slave-trading business continued to thrive, maintained by his oldest son. "What's it like to discover your ancestor was a slave trader?" he writes. "The disgust is overpowering. You cannot stop thinking about the men and women he sold...
...most resolute women I've ever met. A veteran of one of Johannesburg's largest aids orphanages and trained in child care, she looks after my 18-month-old daughter while my wife and I are at work - and she can be just as firm with adults as she is soft with kids. Six years ago, when she discovered the house she and her two sons were renting was up for sale, she bid for it at auction and won. But when she went to see the loan officer at the local branch of one of South Africa's biggest...
...those who find that crunches are not enough, the L.A.-based label Not Your Daughter's Jeans has invented a jean that will flatten the stomach with a high-waist fit and clever engineering. At $88, the Tummy Tuck jean may be the quickest way to eliminate inches as well as personal trainers...