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...behest of the U.S., Taiwanese police last week tracked down the computer servers that housed Movie88 and, in a highly publicized raid, shut the site down. Authorities said Tan was clearly breaking Taiwanese copyright laws. "This is Taiwan's year to crack down on intellectual property theft," says Lu Wen-hsiang, a senior official in the Ministry of Economic Affairs...
...burrowing through London's Imperial War Museum archives and the memoirs of British Special Branch officers stationed within the fractious International Settlement, Bradby has done for Shanghai what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles?created a stylish and cool genre-fiction tapestry. Bradby also conjures a crime boss, Pockmark Lu, to hover above this seething cauldron. "A man who makes Al Capone look like a social worker," Lu controls an army of 20,000 foot soldiers (based on the real-life Green Gang), hundreds of call girls and boys, imports opium from India and Pakistan and is ruthless...
...Bangkok with a "Samurai Pork Burger." Big Macs are hard to find on the menus of the 80 Mcdonald's outlets in Beijing, which include spicy chicken wings and red bean pie - the Big Mac is there, of course, it's just sporting a more grandiose moniker: "Lu Wu Ba" ("huge incomparable warlord...
...Beijing's leadership compound three years ago. The demonstration prompted the hasty passage of a law dictating harsh punishment to anyone involved in a cult?while conveniently failing to define what exactly constitutes one. "Anytime a religious group gathers strength, it's at risk of a crackdown," says Frank Lu, head of the Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy in Hong Kong. "Yesterday, it was Falun Gong. Today, it's the Shouters. Who knows which group it will be tomorrow...
...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 Buruma's fervent arguments to the contrary, that only Christian countries can sustain democracy. Only a few, like Liu Qing?who spent four...