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...Lin Yudui came home from Shanghai to his native Guangdong province earlier this month to get married. Instead, the parents of the 26-year-old air-conditioner salesman are now preparing for his funeral. Last Tuesday afternoon, Lin joined what locals estimate was a 1,000-strong protest in southern China's Dongzhou village, where three people had been detained while demanding compensation for land that residents say had been seized by local officials to build a power plant. Hundreds of riot police and soldiers, plus several tanks, were called in to disperse the protesters with tear gas?not that...
...What happened next in Dongzhou, though, was far from ordinary. Just after 7 p.m., say two locals reached by TIME by phone, riot police opened fire on the villagers, who responded by throwing homemade explosives. By the time the smoke had cleared, Lin and at least five others were dead, according to the two eyewitnesses. "We never imagined that they would shoot people," says a Dongzhou housewife surnamed Huang, whose father was injured in the fight. On Saturday, a government report said three villagers had died, adding that the police were forced to shoot in self-defense. But three locals...
...Meanwhile, Lin's family is keeping his bullet-scarred body on ice at home as evidence of police malfeasance. "We are afraid they will come and take the body and say that nothing happened," says Lin's girlfriend, who noted on Saturday that the village was still surrounded by security forces and that most residents were too scared to leave their homes. "Why are they treating us like enemies when all we want is justice...
...which actors break out in song, but Chan avoids cheesiness by embedding the musical scenes in a movie being shot inside his movie. Arty director Nie Wen (Cheung) is making a blockbuster musical in Shanghai, starring his longtime lover Sun Na (Zhou) and a hot Hong Kong idol, Lin Jian-dong (Kaneshiro). Nie's musical is set in a Chinese circus, which allows Chan to use acrobats, contortionists, fire-breathers, trapeze artists, clowns and dwarves to liven up the dance numbers. But the musical inside the movie is just a shadow play for the complex drama behind the scenes...
...specific vision in mind?We’d like to expand our public programming. The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents a major lecture series each year, bringing major artists to CCVA to show and discuss their work. This past fall we have had Ed Ruscha, Maya Lin, and Jane and Louise Wilson. In the spring we will host Laura Mulvey, Wayne Guyton and Kelley Walker, and Julie Mehretu. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to meet, hear, and talk with these established artists.We have five exhibitions a year in the CCVA gallery—two external...