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...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...
...committed reformer who took over the CSRC in 2000 and tried to give it teeth. (Last week he was rewarded with a promotion to lead the central bank). Nonetheless, investors have been duped in the past couple of years by a string of spectacular stock-market scandals. Consider Lu Liang, for example, who took control of a listed chicken breeder in 1999 and renamed it China Venture Capital. After raising an astounding $650 million from investors, he used 125 brokerage offices to manipulate his firm's shares. Under a pseudonym, he even wrote newspaper articles extolling the stock, which rose...
...emerge out of the ground like ghosts from the Cultural Revolution. Sincerity jousts with irony, old communist values with new China's avarice. Greed, of course, has the upper hand; many of the works at the exhibition exude ambivalence toward the country's rampant materialism and unchecked urban growth. Liang Juhui's Floating Transported uses video projection to simulate living in China's cramped, anonymous cities, while the desolate black-and-white photos of artist Rong Rong's Ruin Series document the remains of demolished Beijing neighborhoods. Xu Bing's delightful Guangdong Wild Zebra Herd features four donkeys, alive...
...aggressive strategies haven't led to changes in U.S. military policy, but could in coming years. For now, the odds of a sudden Beijing lunge for Taiwan seem remote. Still, wars can arise from misperceptions, and the disconnect between Chinese and U.S. positions leaves ample room for misunderstanding. Qiao Liang, a P.L.A. colonel who is about to publish a book called Decisive Strike, is among those in China who wonder if America has the stomach for a showdown. "Is the U.S. prepared to spend all its national wealth defending Taiwan?" he asks. "Because China will be a thousand Afghanistans...
...frequent disasters made the government look ineffectual, and that forced Premier Zhu Rongji, himself a Hunan native, to take action in 1998. According to Liang Haitang, a Hunan-based supervisor for WWF, an international conservation organization, Zhu dreamed up "the wisest flood control policy ever issued...