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...feel that Japan is in general, cool, almost like ice.' TO CHU JI, North Korean defector who fled the Stalinist nation for Japan four years ago, after deciding that Japanese "don't care about each other" and returning on June 21 to North Korea...
...JI-QOO: One of a handful of galleries in town that spurns faux-traditional art adorned with the usual lotus blossoms and other Buddhist motifs, Ji-Qoo, tel: (66) 5389 4250, is run by husband-and-wife team Chatchawan and Satoru Nilsakul. They prefer to showcase the work of emerging, Chiang Mai-based artists, and they've got the inside track on whose work to buy: Chatchawan is an artist himself and teaches at Chiang Mai University...
...Adding an Asian player to the ranks can help. Four Premiership teams now have Chinese players on their books, and since welcoming South Korea's Park Ji Sung into their line-up in 2005, Manchester United have become big in Seoul. Three-quarters of South Korea's football fans see the club as their favorite European side, according to Birkbeck, and more than 650,000 South Koreans have signed up for a club-branded credit or debit card since their launch a year ago. By launching local-language websites, teams can tailor marketing to fit an individual country, drumming...
...Amidst this frivolity was a piece by one “Lian Ji,” which was titled, “Princeton University is racist against me, I mean, non-whites.” The reference was clearly to Jian Li, the now-Yale freshman who prattishly filed a lawsuit against Princeton last year for having the gall not to admit him, allegedly because of the admission committee’s prejudice against Asian Americans. The article, co-written with Asian students on the Daily Princetonian’s staff, went on to complain—in broken English?...
...third century A.D., the Chinese scholar and musician Ruan Ji began a 60-day drinking binge. Ji got smashed every day to avoid serving in a corrupt government, and wrote music like “Wine Madness,” which in some versions has a final coda labeled “The immortal exhales his wine.” Though drinking served as a leitmotif during last week’s residency of the Silk Road Project—founded and directed by Yo-Yo Ma ’76—each piece of music was far more...