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Another teenager, China's Chen Lu, won the bronze; considering that she is 17 and from a country where the international rules were unknown as recently as 1980, she showed authority and what her coach calls bing gan, a feeling for skating. Maybe the skating establishment should see whether China's homegrown code also has bing gan; it cannot be more Mandarin than the lofty formulas that are prevalent now in skating, and it might conceivably create fewer messes...
...Chen Lu, 16, is the first skater of consequence to come out of China. Born into a family of athletes - her father was a member of the national hockey team - she nonetheless learned much about her art from videotapes. She has a liquid style and a command of the ice beyond her years. So far, she has proved to be no more than competent at the crucial jumps, and at times her programs have been more dutiful than sparkling. But this is a newcomer to international competition, emerging from a country with no skating tradition. She has gained experience...
...concluded that "this is the way her culture taught her to put healthy young boys to sleep." Four years earlier, however, he had brought a Somali woman to trial for allegedly performing a clitoridectomy, traditional in some parts of Africa, on her two- year-old niece. In 1989 Dong Lu Chen, a Chinese immigrant in New York City, hammered his wife to death because he suspected her of cheating on him. Feminists were outraged when Chen was sentenced to just five years' probation. But the judge had relied on an anthropologist's testimony about the seriousness of infidelity in Chinese...
WRITERS: LILIAN LEE, LU...
Most people want to see movies that treat women and men of all races with respect, dignity, and complexity. Unfortunately, if we continue to confuse the affirmation of women with the denigration of men, such movies will cover up the reality of our chauvinistic, unequal society. Lynn Lu...