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...came here just to see the pants-less extravaganza,” Yue Han Tang ’10 said. “After this, I am going back to Currier...

Author: By Linda M. Lian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eliot Diners Go Pants-less in Protest | 2/13/2009 | See Source »

...Befitting the grim economic climate, Shanghai newspapers are predicting that celebrations of the lunar New Year will be more muted than the lavish outlays of previous years. Local department stores have been slashing prices, and malls are less crowded than usual, with few heeding the promises of Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng that 2009 will bring 9% GDP growth for the city. Another gloomy indicator: Year of the Ox stamps issued by the Shanghai post office haven't been selling as well as their Year of the Rat predecessors. Even worse, the meteorological bureau predicts that the days on which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Not So Bullish About the Year of the Ox | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

...Physically, Han Chinese, the majority population in China, look little like Uyghurs. Uyghurs’ skin color is more tan and eye and hair color more varied, with facial structures more stereotypically Western. Because of such physical differences, Uyghurs are often asked to infiltrate on behalf of the Chinese government “because the Chinese cannot,” Beydulla said...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Shelters Eastern Scholar | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...situation between Uyghurs and Han Chinese are not diminishing—if anything, the chasm is deepening...

Author: By Elyssa A. L. Spitzer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Shelters Eastern Scholar | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

...made five films - Born to Defence (1986), The Master (1989), Once Upon a Time in China (1991), Fist of Legend (1994) and Fearless (2006) - in which he protects his countrymen from cruel and rapacious foreigners, mostly Americans. In 1994's The New Legend of Shaolin, he is a Han Chinese rebel fighting against Qing (or Manchu, and thus foreign) rule. In Hero (2002), Li is an assassin who, to his own detriment, abstains from an attempt on the life of the Qin King, who goes on to become the venerated Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Liberation of Jet Li | 11/27/2008 | See Source »

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