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Bestselling author Dave Eggers, whose most recent book is a fictionalized memoir of a Sudanese refugee, and Valentino Achak Deng, the refugee who inspired the novel, emphasized the power of the written word in educating the public about genocide in Darfur in a conversation at Memorial Church yesterday. The two men fielded questions about how they wrote the book, titled “What is the What,” and Eggers’ choice to relate Valentino’s story through a novel rather than through a traditional nonfiction medium. Such a decision, Eggers explained, came after prolonged...
...creative liberties in his bestselling memoir “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.” Perhaps the better question in this moving new book about a Sudanese refugee isn’t What, but Which. “This book,” writes the real Deng in the preface, “is the soulful account of my life: from the time I was separated from my family...to the thirteen years I spent in refugee camps...to my encounters with vibrant Western cultures.” Released two years after Colin Powell decided to crown...
...students told me quietly that they had to write posters against me to protect themselves?'' At that juncture we did not know that the Cultural Revolution was in fact a struggle for power between the Maoists and the more moderate faction headed by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. It later became known that the chief party secretary at the conservatory, who belonged to Liu Shaoqi's faction, was murdered when Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, decided to replace him with one of her favorite young men. While we were sitting out in the garden afterward, our conversation was < suddenly drowned...
Geography again saved the day. In 1979, Communist Party boss Deng Xiaoping began opening China to foreign investment, and Hong Kong manufacturers decamped to the mainland to take advantage of the vast supply of cheap workers. The trading firms stayed behind. In fact, as more work moved into China, locating a headquarters in Hong Kong, on the doorstep of southern China's industrial parks, became imperative. The trading firms quickly devised a new, cross-border manufacturing system. With poor technology and training, Chinese workers could complete basic product assembly but not the more complicated parts of a manufacturing process...
DIED. Bo Yibo, 98, last surviving member of China's politically influential Eight Immortals; in Beijing. The group of veteran Communist Party leaders, purged during the Cultural Revolution, was elevated to top positions in the '80s and '90s under Deng Xiaoping. Although a conservative who supported the crackdown on Tiananmen Square protesters, Bo steadfastly embraced Deng's financial reforms--which shifted China toward a market economy--and helped successfully fend off Marxist hard-liners determined to regain economic control...