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...Chinese artists on the Australian art scene is already being felt from within. Sydney gallery director Gene Sherman describes this world as "a very delicate ecosystem, both in terms of the practitioners, and also in terms of people like us." While artists like Guan Wei, Ah Xian, and Liu Xiao Xian, all of whom moved to Australia following the Tiananmen Square killings 16 years ago, are hardly household names, they are for the dealers, curators and gallery directors who make the art world go round. Their works are being quietly amassed by the collections that count, and they're starting...
...kitchen table in Sydney's south, Liu Xiao Xian is "playing" chess on his laptop computer screen. Actually, he's clicking on images from his 2001 wooden sculpture, Game, in which meticulously carved Chinese and European pieces face off across a chess board. It's a typically disarming work from Liu, 41, whose photos and installations speak eloquently of his shift to Australia in 1990. "There are no rules how to move," he says. "That's been my experience - how to make the negotiation? How to make it workable?" With recent work taking center stage at the Art Gallery...
...minutes, and the accused were not even present. Even so, the air was filled with suspense when a five-judge military panel last week found Vice Admiral Wang Hsi-ling, the former head of Taiwan's military intelligence bureau, guilty of plotting the murder of Chinese- American Writer Henry Liu, who was gunned down at his Daly City, Calif., home last Oct. 15. The sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came...
...intelligence chief's sentence, which will automatically be appealed, failed to mollify Liu's widow, who said she believes the killing was politically motivated. In Washington last week, the House of Representatives voted 387 to 2 for a nonbinding resolution urging Taiwan to send the two convicted gangsters to the U.S. to stand trial...
...Dalai Lama wants to really improve relations with China, he must ... give up any claim of the independence of Tibet." LIU JIANCHAO, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, saying that Beijing's position on the Dalai Lama remains unchanged despite his recent concessions...