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Part of the problem, explains Luo Zhexi, a graduate student in zoology, is that the government crackdown has driven many of the student leaders in China underground. In recent weeks, it has become increasingly difficult to send resources to China...
...Butterfly explores the boundaries of power, sex and race. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, published last month, Chinese mothers offer their children a series of poignant confessionals. China's repressive Cultural Revolution is the subject of a forthcoming autobiographical novel, A Generation Lost, by Zi-Ping Luo. The Chinese immigrant, now a professor of chemistry at Caltech, was 14 when the Red Guards closed her school...
...everyone in Luo's generation was lost. Spring Bamboo, published early this year, is a collection of stories by Chinese writers under 40, gathered and edited by Jeanne Tai, a New York City attorney. The variety of their expressions and subjects indicates that culture has begun to seep back to the mainland. Wesleyan Professor Ann-ping Chin offers more proof of recovery in the recent Children of China, a survey of youth in the People's Republic. "One cannot say that all China's cultural symbols and cultural assumptions were reduced to ruins," she writes. "They seem to be endowed...
While Otieno's body lay in cold storage last week in a Nairobi mortuary, the legal battle raged over whether the lawyer should receive a traditional Luo tribal burial at his ancestral homeland near Lake Victoria or a Christian interment outside Nairobi. His widow Wambui Otieno initially feared she would be made to shave her head and marry Otieno's younger brother if the burial were held according to Luo custom. While her qualms now appear unfounded, she continues to insist that Luo tribal laws are "out of step with civilization...
...visitor's driver, Davis, was a Luo from Lake Victoria, a hearty man of middle age with smiling open face and the public manner of a gregarious bishop. Davis considered himself a Roman Catholic priest. Into a notebook that he always carried, he had inscribed the text of the Latin Mass, copied from a missal that he had borrowed somewhere in his travels. Davis sometimes donned a long white alb and, all by himself outside the boma, performed services beside his Land Rover, chanting the Latin in a rich bass...