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Inevitably, the flood of money has left some members of the art world in China unhappy. "Modern art in China has become a monster," says respected collector Guan Yi. "People's attention is no longer focused on the art itself but [on] what kind of return they will get on their investment, like the stock market...
...branch to China. Perhaps the greatest potential deal the two could strike is on manpower. Russia's male life expectancy has slumped to 58. It faces a declining population and will need millions of new workers to keep its economy chugging. China could easily supply them. But Russia, says Guan Guihai, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Peking University, "remains concerned that the Chinese population could overtake the Russian population in the border regions if labor policies were changed, and that would threaten national security." He says Russia gets nervous if China "sends as much...
...infection. Scientists have genetically sequenced two viruses isolated from the cluster and found no evidence of the kinds of significant mutations that would likely be necessary before the virus could pass easily from person to person. "The virus looks pretty much the same as other cases," says Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong who has seen the genetic sequences...
...knows from experience how important that is. It was Guan who discovered, through field data he gathered, that civet cats were probably spreading the SARS virus to human beings. Guan formulated his hypothesis just as SARS was beginning to return in Guangdong at the start of 2004. A more patient scientist might have waited and harvested more data. But patience is not Guan's strong suit, and with new human cases surfacing, there wasn't time. Putting his scientific reputation on the line, he gave his preliminary results to authorities in Guangdong and urged them to cull civets being sold...
...Guan doesn't lack for scientific chutzpah, but it takes a little self-confidence to rise from Jiangxi Medical College in the heartland of China, where Guan earned his M.D. at age 21, to a corner office in Hong Kong and a position as one of the most important influenza experts in the world. As we inch closer to a possible flu pandemic, Guan keeps gathering his data, doing his part to piece together the puzzle that is the avian flu. "I do this work for the whole world," he says. "For the first time, human beings have the ability...