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...video that accompanies his Chairman Mao Goes to Anyuan, Liu Chenhua explains that he started painting pictures of Mao when he was a child "because I have always had deep feelings for him." Those sentiments come through in his depiction of Mao as a handsome young scholar standing on a mountaintop under swiftly moving clouds. With Jiang Qing's endorsement, it became a "model artwork" and was reproduced more than 900 million times. In the video, Liu explains that a group of printers came to him apologizing that his given name, Chenghua, had been misspelled as Chenhua on the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Red | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Ling Woo Liu correctly points out that most of the time, spoiled kids grow up to be dependent on their family's wealth. This is unacceptable in today's society; everyone should start working to earn their own money and thus create more "working" brains. This in turn will help the development of countries. Rami El Chamaa, Beirut

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...than 500 people joined Pu in signing the document. Bao Tong, a deputy to Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was purged from the government for his support of the 1989 pro-democracy protesters, is the most prominent former official on the list. It also includes activists such as Liu Xiaobo and Ding Zilin, who co-founded the Tiananmen Mothers group after her teenage son was killed in the 1989 crackdown. Several prominent lawyers and writers who are actively working and publishing also signed, giving Charter 08 more clout than it would carry if it were the work of only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Call for Chinese Democracy | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...advocacy group Human Rights in China reported that on Monday night, the evening before the document was published, Beijing police raided the houses of two signers, activists Liu Xiaobo and Zhang Zhuhua, and took them into custody. Zhang was released after 12 hours, the group said, but Liu remains in detention. Pu, the lawyer, said Beijing police followed him on Dec. 9 and asked him to report his whereabouts on Dec. 10. That day marks the anniversary of the 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the U.N. General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Call for Chinese Democracy | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

...become a prominent symbol of the country. “Tequila is competing with the Virgin of Guadalupe as a symbol,” Suros said. The event drew many new attendees to the Mexican Studies program series. “I liked tequila,” Liwei Liu, a Chinese student at the Kennedy School of Government said, adding that it is popular in China. One audience member asked about the marketing of Tequila. Suros stressed that it tends to be as “plain as possible.” “Simple bottles, modern, minimalist...

Author: By Anthony J. Bonilla, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Siembra Azul Chief Talks Tequila | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

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