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Early this month, in New York City, you could have seen 16 provocative Chinese films?a bigger selection of mainland movie artistry than the most devoted moviegoer could ever find in Beijing or Shanghai theaters. These are works of the so-called Sixth Generation: directors who made their first films in 1993-95 and whose demanding dramas have won praise at festivals around the world. And censure in their homeland...
...folk dancer expelled as a sophomore from Boston University for various convincing reasons, she fetches up in Honolulu with her boyfriend Gary, 35, a "Vietnam-era" graduate student who promptly ditches her, leaving her stuck with the hotel bill. She can't afford to go back to the mainland U.S., and a dunning letter she sends to her father, who happens to be a dean at B.U., elicits a predictably chilly response. So Sharon drifts, acquiring another boyfriend and growing and selling organic marijuana in a jungle on Molokai: "We lived a pastoral life with capitalist interruptions...
...That past is dying and a bold, lusty future is rising. In mainland China, you can't use the word sex in an advertisement or a product name. But Shanghai radio sexologist Chen Kai - his business card features a pop-up penis - recently gave on-air advice to a housewife who wanted to know if it was safe to pleasure herself with a frozen cucumber. (Chen's tip: thaw it first.) In backwater Phnom Penh, the ankle-length sarong is starting to get shorter, and sex educators say some 50% of high school boys are having sex with girlfriends, often...
...years Beijing has insisted that "Taiwan is a part of 'one China.'" But, says Zhou, from now on the Chinese government will insist that "the mainland and Taiwan both belong to 'one China.'" Catch the difference? In the old version of the sentence, Taiwan is presented as a part of China. In the new sentence, Taiwan and the mainland are positioned as parts of the same entity. That means the two sides can talk as equals. Except for one thing: the alternative to reunification, Zhou made clear, is war. Beijing is asking Taiwan, again, to negotiate with...
Somewhere on the causeway between Miami Beach and the mainland, my brother-in-law said, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" "Vanilla cappuccino?" I whispered. "Yes," he said. "But where?" For reasons that are unclear to me, my bro-in-law and I share a powerful affinity for those hot, disgusting, highly caffeinated beverages you can buy only from vending machines at 7-Elevens. Finding a 7-Eleven in your own neighborhood isn't exactly rocket science. But we were vacationing on alien terrain. Where, oh where, was the closest source of the Treacle of Life...