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...that's often, he admits, as he is hobbled by a lack of funding--he heads across town to the customs house in Phnom Penh. Earlier this year, Tranet prevented a Frenchman from bribing a customs official to let him leave with an 18th century Buddha stolen from a pagoda in Posat province. The 5.3-ft. wooden statue now stands in a back-room workshop at Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh. If it were returned to the remote pagoda, Tranet fears that thieves would target it again. To Tranet, there are threats on every side--including foreign diplomats...
...These days Namu rarely gads about Europe on the elbows of wealthy Western men. Versace has given way to Chinese-style gowns, and her books have grown thinner as she runs out of things to say. She is, she says, negotiating to become the "cultural ambassador" for Red Pagoda Mountain cigarettes. Gone are both the glamorous Western life that she sold in Chinese and the Mother Lake upbringing that she sells in English. The reconciliation of the two distinct sides of Namu would make for an excellent sequel...
...Akshobhya Buddha The founder of a Taiwan-based Buddhist association received this 1,300-year-old head?sawed from its torso at the Four Gate Pagoda in northeastern China in 1997?as a gift from his disciples. He returned it to China...
BLACK WRITERS READING. Maryse Conde (Segu), Darryl Pinckney (Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature) and Patricia Powell (The Pagoda) speak together next Wednesday, presented by the W.E.B du Bois Institute. The last event of the Black Writers Reading Series, the reading promises to be well-attended, interesting—and it’s your last chance. Wednesday, March 19 at 4 p.m. No tickets required. Barker Center, Thompson Room, 12 Quincy...
...Condé will read from her 1996 tale Segu. She will be joined by Darryl Pinckney, whose work Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature is based on a recent series of lectures at Harvard. Briggs-Copeland Fellow Patricia Powell, who will present her novel The Pagoda. The event is co-sponsored by Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Center and Harvard Book Store. Wednesday, March 19 at 4 p.m. Free. Thompson Room, Barker Center, 24 Quincy Street...