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...William Shawn, the editor of The New Yorker--and a man famous for his almost mandarin courtesy--young Wally was raised in a cocoon of kindness where such selfishness was unthinkable. Only when he was sent away to summer camp did he learn the awful truth about the rest of humanity. He has never recovered from the shock. "The counselors were very rough and occasionally sadistic. Once, when they were annoyed with a boy, they actually suggested that we beat him up! The whole world turned out to be like that camp. I still can't get over...
...Asia, including China. "It's going to be about quality, not quantity," he says. Still, Hong Kong?and international moviegoers?will lose something when the old system dies, as Peter Chan knows. Chan, who built his name by making indie Hong Kong movies, has just shot a $10 million Mandarin musical set in Beijing and Shanghai and co-produced by the Hollywood backer of Million Dollar Baby. The film could be bigger than anything Chan has ever done, but part of him misses the way things used to be. "Hong Kong culture will inevitably be gone one day," Chan says...
...handled some 150 transactions for them over the past three years as China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...
...handled some 150 transactions for them over the past three years as China becomes more appealing. "They're interested in doing deals, but they don't have a good composite view of what the rest of the business world is thinking and doing there," says Chao, 50, who speaks Mandarin and French and travels to China once a month to gather such intelligence. "We add value by supplying the local knowledge and expertise they require...
...bond remains tight. Lee Teng-hui, the first native Taiwanese to become president, speaks far better Japanese than he does Mandarin, and has frequently been criticized by political adversaries for "thinking like a Japanese." A few weeks ago, over Beijing's vociferous objections, Japan allowed Lee a private visit to Kyoto, Nagoya and Kanazawa; likewise, President Chen's wife, Wu Shu-jen, may be granted a tourist visa to visit Japan. It's inconceivable that Koizumi and Chen could meet or even officially communicate: Tokyo doesn't recognize Taiwan's existence as a nation. But at least it no longer...