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Outside the mainstream religions--and outside the supervision of the government--are hundreds of independent Chinese religions that gird China like a rural electric network, illuminating lives house by house. In Fujian province each spring, tens of thousands of the faithful parade from town to town in religious "long marches...
But the plot is not black and white; despite his ordeals, Peiyuan is more self-assured, more confident of his Chinese identity. His brother Peiji, the eminent achiever, broadcasts insecurity and a trace of guilt at the good life he has enjoyed. Peiyuan is resigned to China's failings. Peiji...
DIED. GEORGE C. SCOTT, 71, raspy-voiced, imperious actor whose roles in The Hustler and Dr. Strangelove earned him Academy Award nominations, and who won and then declined an Oscar for Patton; of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm; at his home in Los Angeles. He won three Emmys and was...
Unemployment, of course, isn't the only discordant element in modern China's claims to Mao's communist legacy. In 1979, then-leader Deng Xiaoping coined the rather novel (for a communist) slogan "To get rich is glorious." And today's China is anything but classless; in fact, its income...
Why doesn't the Kansas board of education hire some archaeologists to locate the graves of Adam and Eve? GRAY A. NESBIT Santa Ana, Calif.