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...Lan Yu opens in 1988 with city businessman Handong (Hu Jun), son of a Communist Party official, on the make?not for money but young men. In a Beijing gay bar, he's introduced to country boy Lan Yu (Lu Yue), whom he subsequently pays for a one-night stand. A testy friendship evolves into a messy 10-year relationship. When Lan Yu catches Handong with another man, they break up and Handong abruptly marries a woman. Soon, however, he regrets his matrimony and returns to Beijing and his former beau. From a generation that preceded his lover, Handong...
...Cinematically, director Stanley Kwan is a sober man and his film is imbued with the somber shades of romantic doom. He favors subdued over sensational. Handong and Lan Yu's one-night stand, for example, never gets to a state of hormonal frenzy: Kwan finds his thrill in the tender tremblings of first love. Production designer William Chang creates moody, claustrophobic interiors to convey the relationship's confining, emotionally charged intensity...
...Lan Yu is a story so close to Kwan's heart, you can almost hear his pulse pounding in surround sound. Based on a gay Chinese novel posted anonymously on the Web, Lan Yu was slated to be filmed in Beijing but authorities balked, forcing the filmmaker to shoot it clandestinely. The movie's flaw, ironically, is Kwan's closeness to the subject. An openly gay man, he's so consumed by the love story that Handong's marriage and even the 10-year chronology are handled like clumsy distractions. Ultimately, as a viewer, you can hear the heart pounding...
...time soon. Unfortunately, the two standards interfere with each other physically, if not in the market. Both occupy the 2.4-GHz spectrum, which is already polluted by cordless phones and microwave ovens. One possible solution is a new wireless LAN standard--cleverly named 802.11a--that accesses the 5-GHz band of the radio spectrum and races data along at 54 Mbps. Problem is, it can't understand a thing 802.11b says to it. The first products built on 802.11a are due out soon. If these don't pan out, something else that does soon will. Either...
...Like Lan Kwai Fong in Hong Kong or Leicester Square in London, Beijing's Bar Street, Sanlitun Lu, in the northeast of the city is the place to start. To reach the trendiest spots, it is constant push and shove past row upon row of Westernized joints and miniskirted cigarette and beer girls. The narrow space between the sidewalk seating and lines of inching taxis in the street throngs with people, mostly Chinese, who have come to check out the foreigners at play. Drinks are pricey, music is loud and there is more than a hint of illicit...