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...Quan Cai, Ming Ding, Christine...
...because he would always smile at the people looking back.” Cai kept his warmth and sociability far beyond his childhood into his college years. “Peter is no longer here, but I still see him smiling,” Cai’s mother, Ming Ding, fondly said of her son, an Adams House resident. “I can hear his sweet voice, saying ‘Hi, Mom!’” Li, Cai’s girlfriend, stood out from the black-clad congregation, choosing to wear a green shirt...
...side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera" based on a Ming-dynasty novel, with lyrics in Mandarin by Chinese actor Chen Shi-zheng. The protagonist is the wildly self-confident Monkey, who irritates his peers with his certainty that he is far more gifted than they are and deserving of immortal acclaim. He doesn't go by the nickname Damon...
...Canadian doctor of Vietnamese-Chinese origins, and uses his firsthand experience of the world of medicine to underpin the dozen stories in this book. The pieces are interrelated, lightly and adroitly, by the recurrence of four common characters, Fitzgerald, Chen, Ming and Sri, all doctors. In some stories, Lam writes about his characters in the third person; for others, he uses the first. In less adept hands, this technique could easily seem affected. But Lam's handling of the quickly shifting perspectives is deft and gives the collection an agreeable dynamism...
...opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as the third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story...