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...world-renowned American director, Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland), is trying to make a movie in Beijing's Forbidden City when he suffers a creative drought and can't even work out where to place the camera. He falls seriously ill, and his last wish, as he slips into a coma, is to have a "comedy funeral" in the Forbidden City. Accordingly, his cameraman YoYo (Ge You) markets the funeral as a globally televised event, auctioning ad space to Chinese companies. Huh? Precisely. Big Shot's Funeral, a comedic fable about the clash of cultures, isn't like anything...
Abdullah faces similar difficulties when it comes to issues like gender, sex and education. In 1999 Abdullah declared that the country would "open all doors" so that women could play a greater role in society. But to this day, Saudi women are entirely forbidden to drive and are prohibited from traveling by plane without the permission of a male guardian. Abdullah has approved a population-control campaign to address what may be the gravest long-term threat to stability, a birthrate unofficially put at 4.2%, one of the world's highest. Yet fearing the wrath of religious leaders, who claim...
...Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Père Goriot was titled in Chinese, and Eugénie Grandet - along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe, Madame Bovary, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Count of Monte Cristo, also stolen from the same Western treasure trove - the worldly education of the beautiful seamstress and real re-education of both young men are completed with an ironic, movie-twist happy...
...went through all that pain for the sake of vanity, but then I got a massive infection and had to have both implants taken out. I'm embarrassed about it, although my chief cancer mentor, Marlyn Schwartz (who went to the Palm for lunch after every chemo session), has forbidden this particular emotion. So now I'm just a happy, flat-chested woman...
They toured the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, snapped pictures at the Lungshan Temple and wandered through the National Palace Museum, with its imperial art treasures from Beijing's Forbidden City. The 13 tourists were, in fact, not much different from millions of others who visit Taiwan. But their trip last month was historic. They were the first citizens of mainland China allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists in more than 50 years...