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...graduate student at the University of Southern California in the mid-1980s, the CEO of China's third largest oil company remembers seeing Union 76 signs plastered all along America's Left Coast--emblems of California's car-crazed lifestyle. For Fu Chengyu, then a poor student from northern China, culture shock doesn't even begin to describe it. Try future shock. "Back then," he says, "China seemed like it was 100 years behind the United States...
...took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen and put in a VCR on which the visitors play almost nothing but Kung Fu movies. "We've been a big hit in every town we visited," notes Deputy Director Xu Zhiyuan. After ten cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely calls "a very grand presentation that is to the American audience's taste." Meanwhile, their...
Exhaling smoke with a particular world-weariness only a beautiful woman can conjure, Xu Jinglei announces she's tired of Oriental mystique, all the brocade and bamboo and aerial kung-fu artistry. That's ironic, given that the movie director, 31, with her chopstick physique and brushstroke features, would fit quite nicely into an epic about a woman named, say, Plum Blossom...
...want to be recognized not just in China," she says. "I think Americans would be interested to know what a Chinese girl thinks about things." Even if the girl in question isn't wrapped in embroidered silk or delivering a kung-fu kick. --By Hannah Beech/ Beijing...
...Yangtze into a lake half the length of California and force 1.5 million people to relocate. Since the dam was conceived as a monument to Communist Party power, opponents were branded as dissidents. Reforms have changed that. "The government sees activist groups as less of a threat now," says Fu Tao, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. "With China calling for an environmentally friendly Olympics in 2008, it's even promised to give them a voice...