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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DIED. KO (BLACKY) SHOU-LIANG, 50, Taiwanese actor and stuntman famous for jumping across the Yellow River and the Great Wall on motorcycles and in cars; in Shanghai. A police spokeswoman said Ko, known for playing triad goons, may have died of an "alcohol-induced asthma attack" after attending three banquets, the Xinhua news agency reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

Tsai Ming Liang is a director who refuses to compromise, either with his audience or with himself...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Liang Captures Urban Alienation | 10/10/2003 | See Source »

...into this sorry isolation ward that 20-year-old Shanxi student Han was admitted last week, accompanied by his sister and her boyfriend, who came to take care of him. The boyfriend, surnamed Liang, remembers asking a nurse for a mask to wear around the crowded ward, but he was curtly told to go out and buy his own because the hospital had no money to provide extras. More worrisome, Liang had dozed overnight in a chair next to five relatives of a man who was dying of SARS. By last Wednesday, all five family members had come down with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Regional Affair | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...Ironically, the man who conceived of the Bamiyan replica, Oriental Buddha's chairman Liang Enming, was once a vice manager of Leshan's Cultural Relics Bureau, charged with protecting the very tombs he has allegedly wrecked. In the mid-'90s, Liang?whose handlers said he wasn't available to answer TIME's questions?left public service to head a private company and saw his chance when the Taliban eradicated their own cultural heritage. "This replica," he said at the time, "will make it possible for those who have never seen the statue to look for themselves at its great beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shock of the New | 3/9/2003 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the jury is still out on whether Chinese viewers will actually embrace the reality shows the company is trying to hawk. So far, the critical reception has been less than glowing. Rocky Liang, entertainment critic for New Weekly magazine in Guangzhou, offers halfhearted applause: "Regardless of whether it's good or bad, it's still nice to watch locally made content." As for that TV Court verdict on the donkey, the judged ordered the creature out of the apartment. As News Corp. may eventually discover, China can be a ruthlessly inhospitable place to make your home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Reality | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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