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...Japan's defeat in World War II, Japanese colonial officials and private collectors amassed at least 100,000 artifacts and cultural treasures from all corners of the Korean peninsula. Japanese looters and government-sponsored archaeologists violated the tombs of Korea's Kings and Queens, plundering finely worked gold jewelry, jade pendants and delicate celadon bowls. They carted off stone carvings, pagodas and priceless reliquary caskets from Buddhist temples and removed tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts from libraries. The choicest booty was often bestowed on the Emperor?like the prized blue celadon ceramics found only in the tombs...
...secret of her own. The Gourmet Club, the short story of the book's title, is the hidden haven of a gourmand who concocts exotic dishes out of ingredients such as tree bark, bird droppings and human saliva for a menu that might feature "Phlegm-and-Spittle Liquid Jade" or "Velvet Carpeting Soup." Mr. Bluemound represents the epitome of extreme movie goddess worship: a smitten fan constructs a series of actual physical replicates of the star in various positions for his own erotic purposes. And in Manganese Dioxide Dreams the narrator pleasurably views his own stool specimens as if they...
...best, however, not to look down. The jade-green water that laps the shores is slimy to the touch, glinting with an oily iridescence and dotted with tourist flotsam and jetsam of which carrier bags and lumps of polystyrene are among the least noxious. The fisherfolk who invite visitors aboard their sampan settlements with offers of rice wine or bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen...
...young Western travelers seeking a bit of chemical adventure, the word opium still conjures images of ornate dens strewn with divans, elaborately carved ivory and jade pipes and the sophisticated decadence of concession-era Shanghai. From articles in Vanity Fair and Arena to documentaries on Japanese television, opium smoking has become chic. It is the drug of choice for a few famous Paris fashion designers and restaurateurs. And collecting opium pipes and paraphernalia is popular among modish New Yorkers. The trendiness is fueled in part by scarcity: it takes 100 g of opium to refine 10 g of heroin...
...fogeys aren't going away. LVMH recently bought Pucci; the Gucci group is revamping Bottega Veneta; and no less venerable a jeweler than Asprey & Garrard has hired Jade Jagger (yep, Mick's daughter) and her partner as designers...