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...Staff writer Jing Lin can be reached at lin4@fas.harvard.edu...
...town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through...
...discovered the face that has now become famous Asia-wide. Manfred Wong, then a writer and producer in Hong Kong, saw Shu Qi's picture on a magazine cover in 1995 and tracked her down. He was searching for a newcomer willing to get naked for commercial director/producer Wong Jing, who was preparing to make Sex and Zen II, a Category III, or adults only, movie. Shu Qi had already done nude photographic books. She was being fleeced rather than managed by two Taiwan agents: for every $100 she was making, she says, they took $45. It wasn't hard...
...scene she makes lesbian-then-macho love (with a strap-on appendage) to heroine Loletta Lee, a 29-year-old actress who had sexed her way through much of the same fare. She was instantly noticed: half demonic, half nymph-gazing-through-the-eyes-of-the-worldly-whore. Wong Jing, at that time Hong Kong's most successful filmmaker, proclaimed that Shu Qi would one day be famous...
...Staff writer Jing Lin can be reached at lin4@fas.harvard.edu...