Word: mao
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...hold the moral high ground. The origin of its business empire traces to the end of World War II, when Kuomintang troops, then battling communist rebels for control of the Mainland, landed in Taiwan and grabbed hundreds of properties and buildings from the defeated Japanese. After being routed by Mao's troops in 1949, the Kuomintang fled to Taiwan and established its government in exile, setting the stage for what one local newspaper described as a "five-decade looting spree", in which the party found it difficult to distinguish between its own coffers and those of the state. Critics...
...young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life than a drama, Tian's gorgeous portrait of anxiety and anticipation gains power in part from its time and place (China a year before Mao's Revolution), in part from the director's own tiptoeing through a minefield of political metaphors. The film's own happy ending: it was shown publicly this summer in China...
...even killed his chicken for me to eat ... It was at that time that I started believing there was a God in this world. Because if there wasn't, then this world would be given over to demons. And you know in China we have had our demons. Mao Zedong was a demon?in his eyes a human life had no value whatsoever. Deng Xiaoping was a demon?he pointed the guns and tanks at defenseless students at Tiananmen...
...right, Tarantino felt he had to travel to the source. Portions of the movie will be filmed in Mexico and the U.S., but almost all of Kill Bill's Asian scenes, including those set in Japan, were shot in Beijing in a studio that Mao Zedong built to produce propaganda pictures. Lounging on a bar stool on the set of the House of Blue Leaves, Tarantino admits that realizing this sequence?in which Thurman eviscerates a grand total of 76 masked stuntmen?is the biggest challenge of his directorial career. "I want it to be to kung fu fights what...
...sees as the nature of the European shopper. "It's a culture that understands quality and taste," he says. "They understand my clothes more than Americans. They're hungry for it. Armani and Zegna? They don't look like me." For fall, Armani looked east with kimono shirts and Mao jackets; for spring, Lauren went Gatsby with pleated trousers and waistcoats...