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...occurred to me that Jiang was speaking not only about his grandson, but also using a tale as a parable, like Mao often did. At dinner that night, a top Chinese foreign ministry official agreed that the President had been speaking in broader, more metaphorical terms. The leadership realizes, he said, that the Internet will be hard to control, and they will be able to advise but not tell their people...
...execute his own son over a love affair with a nurse; they refused, so the hero killed himself. For 22 years Zheng's followers ruled their Taiwan redoubt independently, fighting the Qing navy until finally surrendering. Sound familiar? History began to come full circle in 1949, when Chairman Mao's peasant army drove the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan; today Chiang's successors increasingly lean toward an existence separate from the mainland. Stay tuned...
...they made a statement. They were quirky windows into our souls, expressions of our kicky individuality. Michael J. Fox sported one in Back to the Future; Wham had a few dozen pinned to their blousy satin suits. They even made it big in China during the Cultural Revolution when Mao-adorned pendants were the symbol of revolutionary coolness. Then the multinationals, elementary schools and junior athletic leagues took over and un-cooled the button. They became big and plastic, and their messages lost out to corporate hype and photo badges of 8-year-old softball players. Until...
...John's wort came into its own in 1984, when the German government classified it as an MAO inhibitor, on the basis of in-vitro studies, and approved its use as a mild, natural antidepressant. Sales took off both in Germany, where St. John's wort easily outsells prescription drugs like Prozac, and in the U.S., where concoctions of the herb, sold under such labels as Mood Support and Brighten Up, became flagships of the booming alternative- medicine industry. Before last year's warnings that St. John's wort could interfere with other medications--notably AIDS treatments, antibiotics, cardiac drugs...
...commies vs. capitalists, as during the 40 Years War with the Soviet Union, A.K.A. the cold war? There may be some of that, but it's hardly the main story in post-Mao China. The "capitalist-roaders" have won the day, and communism is but the fading red label on a gerontocratic regime locked in a desperate battle with the market forces it had itself unleashed in the era of Deng Xiaoping. The regime's message to the people is not about Mao and Marx but about money vs. might: enrich yourselves, but leave the driving...