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That's because, unlike many earlier imports, Yao grew up playing basketball. His 6ft. 3-in. mother, Fang Fengdi, a high-ranking official in the Chinese sports-research institute, was on the national team, as was his 6-ft. 7-in. father, Yao Zhiyuan, an engineer with the Shanghai harbor administration. "He's been taught well," says Pete Newell, who runs the respected Big Man Camp for college and professional giants in Honolulu. "He's very, very sound fundamentally." Still, no one, not even Yao, can explain why he suddenly started playing like an All-Star. "I don't know...
...EXILED. FANG JUE, 47, former Chinese bureaucrat and prominent dissident, who was sentenced to prison in 1998 after calling for free elections; to the U.S. Although Fang was released from prison last July, he was detained again in November as part of a government crackdown prior to the 16th Party Congress. His expulsion comes a month after pro-democracy activist Xu Wenli was released and exiled, also...
...tempted to distrust Charmaine Craig. Harvard educated, an actress (remember White Fang II?) with runway-model looks, she could almost have been genetically engineered by the publicist for The Good Men (Riverhead Books; 399 pages; $24.95), her ambitious first novel about an outbreak of heresy in medieval France. But one would be wrong not to trust her, because as a writer she's the real deal. And as it happens, her work has much to say about both temptation and distrust...
...Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted with China's political topography will find fresh profiles of familiar figures who are often lost in the glaring limelight that follows them?Wei, Wang Dan, Dai Qing, Fang Lizhi and Liu Binyan. But Buruma also introduces characters less well-known in the English-speaking world...
...Michael Douglas), who may or may not be a hit man, arrives on the scene. This black comedy is directed by Harald Zwart who made his directorial debut with the 1998 Swedish film, Hamilton, but is best known for his comedic commercials for Lynx deodorant. —Yan Fang...