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...Although it remains his touchstone, Mo Yan acknowledges that the gritty modern Gaomi is very different from the midcentury, rural township of his fiction - a place where peasants ride stoic donkeys and heavily laden camels walk the dusty streets. Film buffs may know it from Zhang Yimou's 1988 adaptation of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, set during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote...
...culture. Jay Li, the general manager of Li Ning USA, predicts that as Chinese soft power expands, China's tastes "will become part of the fabric of mainstream culture." Says Li: "When the tide starts to turn, we want to be one of the brands to bring a new, modern China to the rest of the world...
Cuisine: “Modern French Bistro with a Cuban Twist.” For Quadlings who don’t want to trek down to Sandrine’s, Chez Henri is a cozy, friendly option only a few minutes down Shepard Street from Currier, Cabot, or Pfoho...
...perhaps it is the strategic thinking underlying U.S. military spending that is the problem. Under current plans, the U.S. military will have 1,000 more warplanes than any other nation by 2020, as Gates himself told the House panel. When it comes to the most modern category of fighters, in 10 years the U.S. is expected to have 20 times more than the Chinese, and 15 times more than the Russians. And that doesn't include the punch provided by the Pentagon's fast-growing fleet of armed drones...
...does one reconcile Shari'a law with the freewheeling demands of modern tourists? One answer, say tourist officials, is to emphasize faith rather than fundamentalism. Acehnese are famously devout - their province is often called the "Veranda of Mecca." Banda Aceh's tallest building is one of the minarets of the black-domed Grand Mosque, and the city still moves to the rhythms of five daily prayers. A campaign is now under way to promote it as "Indonesia's Islamic tourism city...