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Nanbei street, a ragged strip of asphalt not far from the south bank of the Yellow River, used to be the embodiment of China's racial harmony. Each day, the Muslim call to prayer from Nanren village, populated with the Hui descendants of Silk Road traders, mixed in with the calls to commerce from the vegetable market in the neighboring Weitang village, inhabited by China's Han majority. As testament to its ethnic tolerance, Nanbei Street is lined with fresh-meat stands catering equally to the dietary preferences of the Han and the Hui. Last week, though, after a traffic...
...When Wei Hui wrote Shanghai Baby in 1999, she launched not just a book but a genre: confessional, and often sexually charged, works of fiction and nonfiction by young, neophyte women trying to capture the Zeitgeist of hard and fast living in a roller-coaster China. The latest to let it all hang out is teenage iconoclast Chun Sue's Beijing Doll. This semiautobiographical novel, first published in 2002 when Chun was just 17 and which was recently released in English, chronicles the turbulent life of Chun, a high school dropout who shares the same name as the author...
...original image, published in the state-run Oriental Outlook magazine in the last week of August, shows Hu shaking hands with Deng in 1992 while Jiang stands behind them, as if giving introductions. But in the other two photos, which appeared in Shanghai's Wen Hui Bao newspaper on Aug. 13 and in a set of pictures celebrating Deng's centenary, Jiang has vanished. At least one of the doctored photos was released by the Xinhua news agency?which implies either official complicity or a massive goof. Either way, "it can only be embarrassing for Jiang," says an editor from...
...time, not much. But last year, the renamed Imagi International Holdings landed a contract to animate 13 episodes of Father of the Pride. The company doubled its staff to 300, and Raman Hui, the Hong Kong-born supervising animator of DreamWorks' Shrek and Shrek 2, flew in to oversee the work. According to Hui, DreamWorks considered more experienced companies in France, South Korea and the U.S. but picked Imagi because its employees were plucky and determined to learn. "It's really refreshing," says Hui, one of six DreamWorks employees supervising work in Hong Kong. "They say, 'Tell...
With her half-thriller, half- tearjerker movie Jade Goddess of Mercy, Ann Hui has become the answer to an unlikely question: "What would you get if you combined Richard Donner (Lethal Weapon) and Jane Campion (The Piano)?" One of Hong Kong's few female filmmakers, Hui is best known for character-driven dramas such as July Rhapsody. But partway through Goddess, she gives in to her basic, box-office instinct to deliver what the people want: lots of gunplay...