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...foreign styles, from Greek porticos to Islamic domes, meant to show a returned worker's worldliness. Nearly 2,000 blockhouses remain in the Kaiping area, most of them built during the Republican era of 1912-49. If you're in Hong Kong (four hours away by ferry) or Guangzhou (a two-hour drive) and fancy a captivating detour, why not go see just how exuberantly this previous generation of affluent Chinese spent its cash? The best place to start, just west of Kaiping, is the village of Zili, which has 15 blockhouses. The stately Mingshilou, built...
...theaters since the communists took over China in 1949. More than 15 other movies have followed, including The Incredibles and National Treasure--an impressive record, given that Beijing allows only 20 foreign films to be shown in the country each year. Disney on Ice has been performed in Beijing, Guangzhou and other cities since 1996. The company is even developing a new live-action film reminiscent of Snow White in which a young woman in 1880s China is protected by seven Shaolin fighting monks instead of the familiar Happy, Dopey...
...support his parents so that they can quit their factory jobs. "Maybe this year I can make enough money for them to retire," says Li. Then two ghosts will leave the city, but there will always be millions more to take their place. --By Hannah Beech/ Guangzhou...
GELDOF This is a political event, not a cultural event. In order to get political momentum, one guy with a banner is not enough. You need millions. The lingua franca of the planet, as we learned from Live Aid, is not English--it's pop music. From Guangzhou to Bogotá, they listen to 50 Cent, Eminem, U2 and Coldplay. Do they listen to the more esoteric individual cultures? No. That's reality. Do they listen to Muddy Waters? I wish they did. Then I'd put a bill up there with him and John Lee Hooker...
...Hong Kong's pro-Beijing daily Wen Wei Po and a sociologist who often appeared on Chinese television to promote government policy are being detained for anti-Chinese activities? According to Lau, the 55-year-old reporter was picked up by Chinese security personnel on April 22 while in Guangzhou to collect a top-secret manuscript by a friend of Zhao Ziyang, the popular ex-Premier purged for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, who died under house arrest in January. Although the manuscript's exact contents are not clear, a previous memoir by the friend, Zong Fengming, who was able...