Word: gu
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...profile tycoon to run afoul of authorities. The ranks of recent years' rich lists read like a police blotter. In 2003 Yang Bin, an agribusiness and real estate tycoon once named the mainland's second-richest man, was convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 18 years in prison. Gu Chujun, once head of a leading appliance company, was ranked China's 20th richest businessperson by Forbes in 2001. In January, he was convicted of falsifying corporate reports and sentenced to a 12-year prison term. And Zhou Zhengyi, a Shanghai-based real estate developer named China's 11th richest...
...Chinese readers could interpret the concept of an unreadable language as the mythos of a lost history,” Gu noted in an interview with Art Journal, “while non-Chinese readers could interpret it as a misunderstanding of an ‘exotic’ culture...
...objections to what they see as the bastardization of a Chinese cultural icon. Zhang's relentless promotion of modernized Kunqu - he thinks nothing of hiring out performers for appearances in shopping malls and as entertainment at A-list cocktail parties - hasn't helped. "Kunqu should be left alone," says Gu Duhuang, a veteran Kunqu director from Suzhou and one of the most virulent critics. "It is heritage and no heritage needs to be modernized." Not all young people are convinced either. "The true beauty of Kunqu is in its singing, as well as the extreme simplicity in its props," says...
...esophagus is lined with a very thick cuticle, if you don't realize that baby ducks are fed by their mother pushing her beak down the baby's throat," says Ariane Daguin, owner of D'Artagnan, the largest foie gras purveyor in the U.S. Recent studies by Dr. Daniel Guémené, a leading expert on the physiological effects of gavage, have shown that ducks with young in the wild were under more stress than the ducks being fed through gavage. And both The American Veterinary Medical Association's House of Delegates and the American Association of Avian Pathologists...
...died; last year 2,704. were killed. Relief experts attribute this year's lower toll to improved planning and communications that allowed most people to escape before the waters rose this year. "Because of early warning systems and government preparations, many villages were evacuated," says Gu Qinghui, regional disaster management delegate for the Red Cross...