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...toughest thug in the Rio slum of Cidade de Deus stands impatiently outside a brothel as his gang robs the patrons. Miffed at being excluded from the fun, he strides in and kills everyone. It's his first mass murder--the ideal calling card for a precocious psychopath. Li'l Ze, as he will come to be known, is 9 years...
...moral queasiness, as one gang is wiped out and a still younger one rises to claim the spoils. You wonder if the next generation of Li'l Zes will pop out of their mothers' wombs, guns blazing, ready to take over. --By Richard Corliss
...literary pantheon. Dai Sijie's Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, written in French, was an immediate best-seller in France and won five prizes. Anchee Min's 1994 English-language memoir, Red Azalea, was named a "Notable Book" of the year by the New York Times, and Ji-li Jiang's Red Scarf Girl, also a memoir written in English, won a number of children's book awards in America, including a gold Parents' Choice Award in 1998. Jung Chang's Wild Swans has sold nearly eight million copies since it was first published in Britain in 1991. Lulu...
...Wang claims to be the freest-minded author in China but admits that there are many restrictions on what Chinese authors can write about. "I can't mention Mao, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) or Muslims." He shakes his head when asked whether Mo Yan and Li Rui, two mainland authors favored by American and Swedish sinologists, are as free as he is. "No," he says. "They both love the peasants so much that they start to beautify them. Are Chinese peasants really that nice? Mo Yan and Li Rui are both nostalgic about the poor days of China...
...Li Mingwu is knee-deep in Nirvana. He is buried in Bjork, awash in Aerosmith and mired in Moby. Li (not his real name) supplies cut-rate music CDs to storefront retailers in his home city of Guangzhou in southern China and is on one of his periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through...