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...with the exception of Microsoft?remain warily on the sidelines, unsure if they can profit in China's savage market. Today, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard have a combined market share of under 3%; Palm and IBM don't even sell PDAs on the mainland and there isn't enough Mandarin software to spur consumer interest. "We know this is a weakness," concedes Franklin Sze, product director for Compaq's iPAQ in Greater China. Preoccupied with tough times at home and hobbled by supply problems, U.S. PDA manufacturers have focused international efforts instead on affluent consumers in Europe and Japan. "When...
...America's best film director, eh? Best--well, fine--but American? Lee, who was born and raised in Taiwan; who brings a very Mandarin delicacy to his subjects; who has shot most of his features in distant climes (Taipei for Pushing Hands and Eat Drink Man Woman, rural England for Sense and Sensibility, mainland China for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon); who has never made a movie in Hollywood; and whose name, correctly put, is Lee Ang...That...
...being part of a township with a main road bristling with Toyota dealerships and Nikkomarts. The citizens make their living from the soil, and everyone knows the business of Mrs. Chang down the street, for example, and her son Li who just bought a new Nissan Cefiro. They speak Mandarin with a Taiwanese accent so thick that mainlanders can't follow a word...
...years in Shenzhen has been an education for Zhang Jin, the concubine, a Mandarin speaker from Qingdao on China's east coast. She learned Cantonese from her Hong Kong motor executive "husband" as well as some Japanese, Korean and English from other clients. The languages will come in handy, she says, when she opens her border beauty parlor. She is giving herself 10 years to save enough money from her other talent: picking up paying men. But competition is rough. The Moonlight's chain-smoking madame, Zhou Min, says she has 200 girls on her books. And by midnight...
...home he is catnip for the voracious paparazzi. "They follow me everywhere," he says. "They know my car numbers, so they're there whether I'm at the Mandarin Hotel Coffee Shop or at Propaganda (a hip new club). I don't even put my litter outside the house. People try to find things and sell them...