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...which won the best actor prize at Venice in 1994 for actor Xia Yu. But it was no ordinary tale from that often portrayed time. The movie, based on a short story by Wang, follows five guys and a girl running wild during one summer of Chairman Mao's engineered chaos: no school, no curfew, no authority figures, just a sexy, violent, exhilarating time. "For people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were just kids being kids." When Jiang met American director Martin Scorsese in New York City in 1992, he told...
...Anchee Min, author of the critically acclaimed historical novel Becoming Madame Mao, blatantly inserts all these elements in her latest offering, Wild Ginger (Houghton Mifflin; 217 pages). Min suffered a tumultuous childhood in China, finally escaping to the U.S., where she wrote a best-selling memoir. Novels like Wild Ginger are celebrated for their gripping historical accounts, but one suspects their success in the West is due in larger part to the authors' own sensational life stories. The book-jacket bios themselves play at the American immigrant fantasy: an attractive woman warrior babe escapes tyrannical regime, washes...
...labyrinthine car park and c) what shade of highlights I should get for my hair. To tell you the truth?and this may disappoint Western readers who love the mythical figure of the Chinese Chick?most Asian women I know are more like Bridget Jones than Madame Mao...
...sticks until they broke them over the edge. Then they cut him all over with kukris. All the time they shouted, 'Why do you spy? Why did you take our comrades to the police?' Then they asked everyone to be silent and demanded my brother chant their song, that Mao is the best." After about an hour, says Yadav, two men laid his brother on the ground, each gripping an iron rod. "They put one through his stomach and another through his shoulder." The guerrillas then firebombed the house. Yadav says the Maoists also beat him, his wife, his sons...
...Count China Out Of the Space Race Yet By HANNAH BEECH Chinese pride blasted into orbit last week with the launch of a spacecraft that takes the nation one step closer to bringing Mao memorabilia to the moon. In an ambiguous sign of technological self-confidence, the Shenzhou 3 rocket carried not snails-they were part of the payload during a mission last year-but crash-test dummies, which sent back simulated heartbeats and voices. (Ordinary Chinese could relate, being familiar with the National People's Congress.) While in orbit, the craft also captured digital images of Earth that notebook...