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...Imperial China, the royal physician was forbidden to touch the Emperor directly. A princeling would attach a long red thread to the Emperor's wrist, and the physician would grasp the thread, feeling the Emperor's pulse at a respectful distance. Governing Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese sovereignty at midnight on June 30 will require the same exquisitely sensitive touch: an ability to understand Beijing from a distance, to sense what its leaders want and what they will tolerate...
...course, easier to be the Emperor's conscience than to be the Emperor himself. Lee's challenge after the hand-over is to retain his moral authority yet not use it to provoke the very crackdown he decries. The challenge facing Tung is far tougher. He has the unenviable task of ruling with the mandate of a mistrusted regime and without the popular mandate of the people. He must ensure that Hong Kong will enjoy the "high degree of autonomy" China promised. And he must prove to Beijing that Hong Kong will not become a dangerous base for subversion...
...idea of a guy named Bonaparte to invent the FBI in 1908 (Charles Joseph, the Emperor's descendant who served as Teddy Roosevelt's Attorney General), and once initial suspicions were allayed that it would turn into some big, secretive, czarist police force, it did precisely that. The bureau quickly built its empire of white men in white shirts, chasing anarchists and Bolsheviks in the '20s, gangsters and bootleggers in the '30s, fascists in the '40s, communists in the '50s and civil-rights leaders and antiwar protesters in the '60s. The enemies, always changing, are changing still, and the agency...
...American-Bahamian citizenship (his parents were Bahamian tomato farmers who sold their produce in Florida, where he was born). The job does not come with an embassy in Tokyo, and Poitier will practice his diplomacy from the comfort of his own home. But he did pay a visit to Emperor Akihito to present his credentials, and he will get diplomatic immunity while in Japan, so he need never worry about parking tickets. His appointment could spark a new game in Tokyo diplomatic circles: Guess which ambassador is coming to dinner...
...incisive presentation of religious influences on Chinese painting, what unfolds is a series of scrolls incredibly rich in calligraphic detail and historical import. All are completely unrolled and elegantly presented in cases that run along the entire length of the gallery. They range from Yan Liben's Thirteen Emperors' Scroll, the only surviving visual record of a series of Chinese emperors, to the scrolls of the famous emperor and artistic patron Huizong, whose devotion to the arts cost him his throne, to the earliest portrait of Confucius. These paintings overwhelm the viewer not only with their historical importance but also...