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...long-awaited treat last month. To stately phrases from some of Bach's cello suites, one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary dance troupes glided through 70 minutes of mesmerizing, Tai Chi-inspired choreography, culminating in a finale that saw the stage flooded with water. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre has presented its signature work, Moon Water, to ovations worldwide, but given the political rivalry between Taiwan and China, the company's recent turn in Beijing - its first in 14 years - was far from just another tour date...
...summer of love across the Taiwan Strait, at least where the arts community is concerned. While political tensions simmer on other fronts - China's military buildup, Taiwan's ongoing bid for U.N. recognition, the Olympic torch route, to name a few - cultural exchanges have never been healthier. Cloud Gate is just one example. The largest group of terracotta-army artifacts ever to leave China (116 in total) is another: it was on exhibit last month at Taiwan's National Museum of History, before embarking on a world tour that will include London's British Museum and a sweep through...
...communes, trying to reconcile that China to the one that young élites live in today is disorienting. When I first visited China in 1981, I went to the People's Park in Shanghai with two traveling companions. Our obligatory Foreign Ministry "guide" ushered us through a special gate reserved for "foreign friends." A knot of young Chinese had gathered outside. As we passed, a few made loud comments about the unfairness of having parts of the People's Park reserved only for foreigners. One of my companions, a Mandarin speaker, agreed volubly in Chinese. Immediately a group of young...
Many soldiers sensed a changed mood when they arrived at the Iraqi police headquarters in Karbala on Jan. 14. Some of the Iraqis the soldiers had been working with since the fall seemed unusually tense. One Iraqi police officer heckled some soldiers at the back gate in broken English, saying "U.S.A. bad, Iraq good" before throwing bread at them. Another aired an ominous warning. "Tomorrow," he said to soldiers standing guard outside, pounding a fist into his palm. "Tomorrow...
...start of the concert, several hundred people had gathered in the New Yard, waiting for the bands to take the porch of Memorial Church, where the crazy light tornado—the one that hangs near Johnson Gate around Christmastime—was suspended between two of the venerable old church’s massive columns. Harry Potter-themed t-shirts, many of them custom made, were everywhere: “You Can’t Stop Hufflepuff,” “I See Thestrals” and “Harry Potter Can Ride My Broomstick?...