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...wrote in his subsequent eight-page report, “whereas his efforts at ‘analysis’ are very effective renditions of the Stalinist leadership’s self-understanding of their murderous and progressive project to defeat the backwardness of Slavic, Asiatic peasant Russia...
...Outside his homeland, Yu is probably best known from Zhang Yimou's award-winning 1994 film To Live. (Yu co-wrote the screenplay.) Following a peasant family from the Chinese civil war of the 1940s through the spasms of the Cultural Revolution, To Live is a historical fable with a long-suffering protagonist, Fugui, to rival the Biblical Job. If something bad happened to China over the past 60 years, it happens to Fugui and his family?again and again. The constant calamity may leave readers drained of empathy, but Yu's stringently honest prose succeeds in making an existential...
Underneath this sad little village in Henan province is the rich legacy of five millenniums of Chinese history. The nearby city of Luoyang was the capital of at least nine dynasties, and the fields of today's peasants are littered with imperial tombs. Many still hold impossibly valuable works of art buried centuries ago. Breaking into these tombs and stealing the national treasures they hold are illegal, of course. But the lure is too great for many, especially because one major haul, sold to a smuggler, can equal a year's farming income. "For kids here, tomb raiding is just...
...Adaptability is the survival kit of illegal ?migr?s. The boys must be ready to change clothes, from peasant robes in Pakistan to business shirts in Iran to T shirts and jeans in Europe. They will have to travel by foot, bus, truck, ship?never knowing how long the trek will last or if they'll be shot, arrested or suffocated en route?and speed-learn the rudiments of new languages in the babel of countries they pass through. There's a sweet, sad scene in which Jamal teaches Enayat a few English words (snow, mountain) that would be of little...
...Movement Toward Socialism in strikes and rioting. Morales has criticized Sanchez for his gas project and for his efforts to put tighter controls on the Bolivian production of cocoa, a crop despised by American officials trying to stem the cocaine epidemic but a key income source for the peasant class—many of whom live of less than $5 a week...