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Contemporary Chinese artists have had their international coming-out parties - but Chinese fashion designers are taking rather longer to make an impact. Hoping to help is Dee Dee Poon. The Hong Kong socialite and fashionista has started Dysemevas, a "pop-up store" and touring boutique that will briefly occupy one location before shutting up shop and moving to the next in-the-know address...
...Currently located on Hong Kong's Hollywood Road, Dysemevas has been showcasing the likes of clothier Yang Du (whose work is pictured) and jewelry designer Winnie Lui. Shoppers sip free cocktails while a DJ works the decks. "I wanted [Dysemevas] to be very high impact and high energy," says Poon...
Tung Chee Hwa, former chief executive of Hong Kong, said yesterday at the Harvard Kennedy School that the single most important bilateral relationship for the world is the one between the United States and China. But, he said, this relationship can only been described as passive tolerance today...
...grew rapidly in size - sprang up. Prices were freed. As the success of reform became evident in the countryside, it was gradually extended to the cities. Deng endorsed the creation of Special Economic Zones, islands of capitalism in a communist society. (The most famous SEZ, Shenzhen, just north of Hong Kong, knows whom to thank for its prosperity; Deng's statue graces a square in the city.) So China started that long run of supercharged economic growth that has made it the workshop of the world. (See pictures of China hosting the Beijing Olympics...
...caveats, there is something stupendous about Deng's achievement. (This magazine certainly has long thought so; he is one of only four non-Americans to have twice been named TIME's Person of the Year.) A friend of mine in Hong Kong describes what is happening in China today like this: Think of a quarter of the world's population - with all its good and bad, beauty and ugliness - rejoining the mainstream of human development after centuries when it stood to the side...