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...China and all we see is how far ahead of us they've come." Once wary of directly challenging the West, nations like China no longer are shy about exporting their model. Beijing runs training programs for thousands of government officials from around the developing world, programs that highlight how China is getting rich...
...People don’t want to go to four a cappella shows a semester,” he explains. “If there were one group, it’s a different story—it becomes a highlight of the semester. Whereas now, it’s, ‘Oh if I can’t make this week’s a cappella show, I’ll go to next week’s a cappella show...
...Highlight Reel1. On Dongguan, the fast-changing boomtown where Chang does the majority of her reporting: "No one is sure how many people live here. According to the city government, Dongguan has 1.7 million local residents and almost seven million migrants, but few people believe these official figures...Dongguan is invisible to the outside world. Most of my friends in Beijing had passed through the city but all they remembered - with a shudder - were the endless factories and the prostitutes. I had stumbled on this secret world, one that I shared with six million, or eight million, or maybe...
...Highlight Reel: 1. Sunil Gangopadhyay on the country's thriving sex industry: "Sex workers are creatures of the dark. They exist in every society but are kept invisible. They are to be used, but not talked about." In ancient India, "if a woman was beautiful and talented; if she could sing, dance or converse intelligently, why should she waste her skills on one man alone? Why shouldn't a number of men enjoy her company? That is why a prostitute was called barnari or barangana - meaning public woman - and the source of her earnings was her skill in some performing...
...world premiere choreographed by Viktor Plotnikov—began with slow, silent movement, with the dancers captured in spotlights like snapshots. This set the stage for a moving and harmonious pas de deux with shockingly acrobatic movements accomplished with the greatest degree of finesse and taste. The highlight was certainly Larissa Ponomarenko’s highly arched instep beating the ground in a frenzied tick as she extended her leg on the floor with extreme hyperextension, a feat that could be trite and crude in the hands—or rather feet—of another. “Liturgy...