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...Jiang Yue and Duan Jinchuan, two Beijing filmmakers who worked for China Central Television (CCTV) before starting their own production company, are examples of the breed. They pay their bills by making programs for state television under contract, while satisfying their artistic yearnings with self-financed projects. In February the BBC aired two of their films as part of a series entitled New China, New Year. Jiang and Duan's films will also show at this month's Hong Kong International Film Festival. While making The Secret of My Success, a hilariously honest account of a corrupt village election...
...protest was the second largest in Harvard’s history—exceeded in size only by demonstrations that met Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 1997—and represented the first major response of Harvard students...
...China's National People's Congress, when it opens March 5 to rubber-stamp Wen's promotion to Premier, will complete a generational changing of the guard. The enigmatic Hu Jintao, already named last year to lead the Communist Party, is set to succeed Jiang Zemin as President. Meanwhile Wen, 60, will replace Zhu Rongji. He has some size-14 hobnailed boots to fill. The brilliant but overbearing Zhu, 74, brought China into the World Trade Organization and hacked away for a decade at the stultifying vestiges of the command economy. For the world's most prominent businessmen, including Microsoft...
...Maggie obviously wears her history lightly. Not so her boss, Lawrence Brahm, a 41-year-old American hotelier and restaurateur who's founded a miniempire by excavating the bad old days, giving them glamour and letting people revisit them?for a tidy price. Brahm owns Jiang's limo and a treasure trove of other Communist Party artifacts. They decorate his restaurant, the Red Capital Club, and his boutique hotel, the Red Capital Residence, both housed in 200-year-old courtyard compounds in Beijing's Dongcheng district. Brahm has seized upon a romanticized notion of China at the cusp of revolution...
...used to be that China was all ideology and no material goods; now it is all materialism but no ideology. So the Chinese guests seek some sort of nostalgia for how they thought it once was." At his restaurant and hotel, Brahm has succeeded where even master propagandist Jiang failed: he has erased the tragedy and rendered the revolution perfect. He points to an empty pack of official Communist Party cigarettes glued to the wooden armrest of a vintage easy chair. "What I am trying to do is recreate a mood, a dream of the 1950s innocence when idealism...