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...those sell only to Nike, allowing the company to monitor conditions more easily. At Shoetown in the southern city of Guangzhou, 10,000 mostly female laborers work legal hours stitching shoes for $95 a month--more than minimum wage. "They've made huge progress," says Li Qiang, director of New York City--based China Labor Watch...
...Chinese?for whom supporting the motherland in athletic competition is one of the few instances in which mass, spontaneous celebration is allowed?is conditioned to see sporting victories as a metaphor for China's ascendance. "Our current national sports policy is called 'Winning Pride at the Olympics,'" says Hao Qiang, head of the State General Administration of Sport's Competition and Training Department. "By being successful at the Olympics, China will erase our shameful past of being humiliated by foreign powers...
...China. "I never planned to do anything to support the Chinese government and never thought of harming the U.S. government," she wrote, adding bizarrely that her "dream" was to host a radio talk show in China. Genuine human-rights activists find a lesson in the scandal. Says Xiao Qiang, the former executive director of New York-based Human Rights in China, which lobbied hard for Gao's release: "It's time Americans realized that just because someone is a victim doesn't mean she's a hero...
...Another press-corps sin now deemed unacceptable: pestering officials in public. During a mid-June news conference, a Beijing reporter embarrassed China's Executive Vice Minister of Health, Gao Qiang, by quoting back to him two of his contradictory statements and then asking which was true. "The Publicity Department said that's even worse than what foreign reporters do," says the editor of a party-run newspaper. Authorities are now reviewing all of the country's newspapers and magazines and may close down other transgressors. So much for the new era of openness that many viewed as the only welcome...
Although his work is often related to that of other prominent contemporary artists of Asian heritage, including Rirkrit Tiravanija and Cai Quo-Qiang, Lee finds guidance in life experiences beyond his Asian heritage...