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...example is Jin Ping Mei (The Golden Lotus), a highly erotic literary classic from the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1368-1644). Mao would let it be seen only by party officials of ministerial rank or higher. Wei Junyi, head of the People's Literature Press, prepared an expurgated edition for somewhat wider distribution, put it off during the campaign against spiritual pollution, and finally let it be printed in 1985 for distribution to writers and scholars, who snapped up 10,000 copies immediately at $6.65 per copy...
...official. "Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's record of bluffing, "it's very possible they are pretending it's a test" so as to scare the rest of the world into offering richer economic aid in exchange for halting nuclear arms development, says Choi Jin Wook, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification...
...underground test. Or not. "Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test?" asks the official. "Yes. Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's track record of bluff and brinksmanship, "it is very possible they are pretending it is a test," says Choi Jin Wook, an expert on North Korea at Seoul's Korea Institute for National Unification...
Johnson pens these portraits in clean, spare prose, allowing the poignant stories to shine. One has the sense of being transported bodily to China; Johnson’s evocative descriptions of various Chinese locales are reminiscent of such fiction writers as Ha Jin...
AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash, the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting, and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history...