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...Thankfully, even dentists can mellow. In the 1990s, Yu began producing novels that, though still suffused with suffering, were leavened by a touch of Chekhovian compassion. Two of those novels, To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, first published in 1992 and 1995 respectively, were translated this fall into English for the first time. While less experimental than his previous works, these books encompass the collective tragedy of China's 20th century?and will help one of China's top writers gain the international recognition he deserves...
...Chronicle follows the same narrative and historical arc as To Live. Xu Sanguan is a factory worker who argues with his wife, yells at his kids and curses like, well, a Chinese factory worker. But Xu manages to stay human in an increasingly inhuman world. The "blood merchant" of the title, he is willing to sell his plasma to keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful...
...England’s produce comes through Chelsea. The end of summer means the end of produce-growing season in New England, so for the next six months, Boston will survive thanks to farmers in California and Mexico, New Zealand and Florida. Not to mention the truck drivers, merchant marines, train workers, and airplane pilots that bring all of it here. I came across several large airline cargo containers from overseas: our dinners have clearly become globalized...
...biggest headache: a corruption scandal that is particularly embarrassing, given his campaign pledge to end dirty politics and his crusade to curb shady dealings among the country's powerful conglomerates. Two of Roh's closest aides are on trial for allegedly taking bribes from now defunct Nara Merchant Bank. Last week, prosecutors said they will summon former presidential secretary Choi Do Sul for questioning in a widening political-finance scandal. (It was the allegations against Choi, who resigned in August, that prompted Roh's surprise plea on Friday for the people's trust.) Prosecutors suspect Choi collected $1 million from...
...driving force behind the Harvard coed sailors’ first-place finish at the United States Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) this weekend wasn’t a strong wind. In fact, nonexistent breezes after noon yesterday forced the cancellation of ten races...