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...satellite around the moon by 2006, land a robotic explorer several years later and, perhaps as soon as a decade from now, culminate in a moonwalk. After that, China wants to build a space station and "establish a base on the moon," the head of the lunar expedition program, Ouyang Ziyuan, has told state-run media. Ultimately, he even hopes China can colonize other planets, although he expects it will take "some 200 years to reconstruct Mars to make it suitable to sustain human life." This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts...
...Chinese are increasingly making the tourist trek to Tibet itself. The region received roughly zero non-Tibetan visitors at the start of the last century, but last year 420,000 Chinese tourists inhaled its thin air, up almost 50% from two years earlier. That means opportunity to people like Ouyang Xu, a cocky 33-year-old entrepreneur who opened the Himalaya Travel Agency last year, and took 700 Chinese to Tibet in six months. They multiply the impact of the many Chinese who have moved to Tibet in the past decade and now constitute more than half of Lhasa...
Every passionate pilgrim needs a guide, and Big Bird's is a six-year-old charmer named Ouyang Lianzi. She is a Chinese Shirley Temple without that child star's cloying cuteness, and she steals the show. Stone selected her from among 100 videotaped auditions sent to him from China. The only difficulty was that Lianzi did not speak a syllable of English. Before filming, Stone mailed her an audio cassette of her 64 lines; helped by her father, she memorized them phonetically without understanding their meaning...
Peking's pantheon of "martyrs for the people" includes such mighty Maoists as Men Ho, who threw himself atop an exploding rocket; Ouyang Hai, dematerialized while shoving an ammunition cart out of the way of a train; and Liuying, trampled to death saving a group of children from stampeding horses. These stalwarts are celebrated in story and song throughout China as worthy examples for study and emulation. Recently, a new hero has joined the roster. His name is Chang Yu-liang, whose deed far beyond-and below-the call of duty began on the Dairen sports ground. Chang...