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...section?by far the most colorful of the book?Buruma encounters regret, disenchantment, infighting and paranoia among men and women who were hailed as heroes when they left China. Chai Ling, perhaps the most recognizable face among the Tiananmen student protesters, now runs an Internet company in Boston and tells Buruma she needs to "find space to build a beautiful new life" and wants "closure" on Tiananmen. Her "deputy" in the square, Li Lu, fronts a hedge fund on Madison Avenue. Others have turned away from political confrontation to espouse Christianity as an elixir for China's woes, insisting, despite...
...When Buruma finally reaches Beijing, it is the summer of 2000 and Bei Ling, the U.S.-based poet, has just been arrested while trying to distribute copies of a literary magazine. Why, Buruma asks, if exiles are so marginalized should the government fear a "minor poet and editor of an obscure literary journal?" If dissidents are unimportant, why does the government bother with them? They matter, Buruma elegantly concludes, because of the challenge they pose to the government's monopoly on truth. Only when that monopoly is broken will craziness start to look sane again...
...Philippines, Efren is known simply as "The Magician," or "Bata," Tagalog for "Kid." Since revealing himself in Texas, Reyes has toured the world, winning, dazz-ling, realigning the game's balance of power and becoming his country's sole bona fide international sports superstar. Efren's exploits are like possessions, bundled up by his countrymen as stories to be shared or traded. The government awarded him the Philippine Legion of Honor in 1999 and his face, along with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's, greets arrivals at Manila's airport. Pool cues have became a hot accessory and new halls have...
...recent Friday night, a glassy-eyed senior citizen treats the club to a warb-ling, sick-dog rendition of John Lennon's Imagine. Beside him a young blond girl wearing a ruffly white dress she might have worn to her prom smiles happily, her hands poised, ready to clap when her elderly companion finishes his song. At another table a man dressed in a white V-neck sweater and cream-colored golf pants is flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip...
Another character, called "you," is on a quest to reach Lingshan, "ling meaning spirit or soul, and shan meaning mountain." He, "you" is told, will find this place at "the source of the You River." Along the way, he meets a woman, called "she," who morphs throughout the book into many different women, sometimes married, sometimes not, who have in common a pronounced tendency to whine: "She says she never wants to grow up and yet she also wants to grow up. She wants to be loved, wants everyone to look at her, but she's afraid...