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...ARTS Books: Afghan Women Books: Yu Hua comes West...
Before turning to fiction in the early 1980s, Chinese writer Yu Hua toiled as a country dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind...
China is a particularly egregious violator of Americans’ rights. John Kamm, the founder and executive director of the San Francisco-based Dui Hua Foundation, has worked on several cases of Chinese-Americans unlawfully detained there (including that of Fong Fuming, a businessman from West Orange, N.J., who was released by Beijing just last week). Kamm writes in an e-mail that, according to his source in the U.S. embassy, “there are approximately 50 American citizens in Chinese prisons or detention centers.” In a country with no transparency in its legal system...
...Number of dominoes toppled by Ma Li Hua of Beijing, breaking the previous world record by over 20,000 dominoes. Ma spent 45 days setting the dominoes up; they fell in 4.5 minutes...
...discovered evidence of how the disease was spreading through the interior of China, when she overheard meetings at which hospital staff members were instructed to hide the extent of the epidemic. Many others contributed to the extraordinary reporting effort, including Beijing bureau chief Matthew Forney, Shanghai bureau assistant Bu Hua and Neil Gough and Bryan Walsh in Hong Kong...