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...Chinese graphic designer has not been a happy one. In mainland China design was, for a long time, an instrument of socialist propaganda, and to be a graphic designer was to be a sort of mechanic, running chunky, graceless type across posters of model peasants or valiant soldiers. In Hong Kong and Taiwan, designers spent much of the 20th century toiling in the service of another omnipotent master - the export market, which required packaging and other printed matter produced strictly to Western specifications and sensibilities. Questions of form, style and color were not settled upon locally, but in British...
...wasn't until the 1980s that graphic designers felt able to properly reference Chinese themes. China's economic reforms, and Hong Kong's imminent decolonization, prompted the quest for a common visual identity. This took place not only at the very moment that Western consumers began exhibiting unprecedented curiosity about Chinese belief systems and culture, but also at a time when multinational brands needed a sinicized graphic language in order to address hundreds of millions of Chinese shoppers. A postmodern Chinese style subsequently entered the global marketplace, appropriating elements of brushstroke calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, imperial and folk art, Shanghai...
...international business, not mixing martinis for the master. He won't say how profitable Quintessentially is. But since he started the company in 2000 with two friends, it has grown to around 1,000 employees, with 45 offices around the world-including jet-set pit stops like Milan, Hong Kong and Los Angeles. Quintessentially is also expanding into new territory, with a sommelier service and a luxury real-estate locator. "I spoke with a member the other day who just used us to sell his house," Elliot says...
Just how much a hydropower boom will help is uncertain. The steepness of the hillsides along the Nu mean that much of the valuable farmland abuts the river and will be flooded by dams. The new residences for the Xiaoshaba residents looks more like a middle-income Hong Kong housing estate than a rural Chinese village. But despite the exterior improvements, villagers are upset that they can no longer raise livestock outside their homes. One former resident of the now-demolished village says his family lost valuable cropland and the payment offered by the government is not enough to compensate...
...movie will also remind more recent Hong Kong fans of Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, the story of an oaf who becomes a hero against by battling a long-imprisoned supervillain. KFP shifts into high gear when its big baddie, Tai Lung, escapes from his prison dungeon, breaking chains, bones and the law of gravity with equal finesse. Many of the fights - Tai Lung vs. the Five Furies, or vs. Shifu or, finally, against a certain panda - are so smartly thought out and spectacularly executed that they might have been designed by an ace stunt coordinator like Yuen...