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...there in the late 1930s, when the cartoon Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was screened in Shanghai. Today Disney sells Mickey Mouse gear through 1,100 Disney Corner outlets, and it wants to double that number over the next year. Disney movies and TV programs, like the popular Dragon Club series, appear on local television. With 24 hours of programming a week, Disney claims to be the largest foreign provider of films for Chinese TV. Disney's wholesome fare has given the company a leg up on getting its movies shown in Chinese cinemas. In 1995 The Lion King...
...room’s real occupant left among the debris. My clichéd Einstein posters were replaced with haphazardly-hung drawings and finger-paintings. My trophies were relegated to “storage” upstairs. My bookcases were restocked with Dr. Seuss, The Berenstein Bears, and strange dragon-themed books that I can neither understand nor pronounce...
...isolate Taiwan, an emerging democracy; has sheltered Pol Pot, a genocidal maniac; has continued to deny basic human rights to Tibetans; and has denounced as selfish those who question China's wavering policy on democracy for Hong Kong. When admiring the sleek, beautiful head of the mighty Chinese dragon emerging from the depths of the Pacific, keep a sharp eye for the shadowy tail that is sure to follow. Dave Lin Marlboro...
...once more taking its rightful place among the great powers. But most casual observers outside China don't understand that even as the nation gains respect, its people are haunted by a deep sense of past slights. China's long journey toward modernity began not because the dragon gently flexed its scaly muscles but because others prodded it with a sharp stick. When China began to open up to the world 150 years ago, it did so because gunships of the British Royal Navy, working in the service of opium smugglers, forced the imperial government to accept foreign trade...
Immelt played offensive tackle for the football team at Dartmouth College. In New Hampshire, he was also president of the now-abolished fraternity, Phi Delta Alpha, vice president of the interfraternity council, and a member of the secret society “Dragon...