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...mall was so quiet that the whirring of escalators could be heard. "Business has been slow since the mall opened in April," says Zhang Zihua, a saleswoman at menswear shop Notting Hill. "Most of the big shopping malls in Beijing are like this," says Zhang's fellow shopgirl Lu Miao. "Have you seen a shopping mall filled with customers...
...Goodbye, Tsai summons back the star, Miao Tian, of the original film who was then in his twenties. Miao reappears as the nostalgic old man in the audience, the aged star, as he is in real life. Ironically, it was the star himself who bears the memory of the days when the house was full, in yet an empty theatre...
...founded in 1980, the program languished for years, relying on uninspired castoffs from local basketball and soccer teams. That changed dramatically in 2001, when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Games and funding kicked into high gear. "When I was an athlete, we had to train on grasslands," says Miao Lin, a hockey referee in Guangdong province. "Now, we've got more money and the training facilities have improved." Earlier this year, China assembled its first-ever national junior team, so a promising hockey crew will be ready for the Beijing Games. "I believe we'll be able to contend...
...petition system, we should ask if it is necessary, as it offers little more than a dose of superficial sympathy. The administrative costs of running the system would be put to better use as a fund for a pool of lawyers to help petitioners through more effective legal channels. Miao Li Beijing...
...Perhaps the most intelligently romantic of all wartime dramas is Ann Hui's Love in a Fallen City (1984), from the Eileen Chang novel about a lonely Shanghai widow (Cora Miao) courted by a dashing Hong Kong playboy (the young, magnetic Chow Yun-fat at his most Cary Grant-ish) in 1939. The Japanese invade Hong Kong, families and fortunes crumble, yet the glow of their hard-won rapture, of love deferred and love embraced, lights up the screen...