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Tian Zhuangzhuang's film opens in 1953, with the marriage of lovely Chen Shujuan (Lu Liping), a schoolteacher, and gentle Lin Shaolong (Pu Quanxin), a librarian. The two believe they have much to celebrate: their warm love, to be sure, but also the dawn of a true People's Republic. Their political ardor can't last; what begins in naive hope is crushed against the great wall of Maoist reality...
...Tina Lu, a resident tutor at Mather House and one of the co-founders if the Knitting Club, described the club's inception as "quite spontaneous...
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...
...Lu Man San) is 10 when, after leaving her family and her village, she arrives in Saigon to be the servant girl in a middle-class home. Here the mother still mourns the death of her daughter, who would have been Mui's age. The father luxuriates in a torpid guilt. Upstairs Grandma intones prayers for the family dead. Downstairs the couple's three boys make mischief. The youngest taunts Mui with merciless glee; he is just about the only sign of wayward life in this house-and-garden mausoleum...
...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...