Word: qing
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...Banxi Restaurant, tel: (86-20) 8181-5955. Another foliage-rich venue is the Bei Yuan at 202 Xiaobei Lu, tel: (86-20) 8356-3365. But the granddaddy of them all is the recently refurbished Taotaoju at 20 Shipu Lu, tel: (86-20) 8139-6111, which, dating back to the Qing dynasty, has some 120 years under its belt. If dim sum is your thing, you may be adding a few notches to yours...
...square, Li Lu, fronts a hedge fund on Madison Avenue. Others have turned away from political confrontation to espouse Christianity as an elixir for China's woes, insisting, despite Buruma's fervent arguments to the contrary, that only Christian countries can sustain democracy. Only a few, like Liu Qing?who spent four of his 10 years in prison forced to sit in complete silence on a low stool with his face pressed against a wall?still make China's political transformation the central goal of their day-to-day work...
...Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted with China's political topography will find fresh profiles of familiar figures who are often lost in the glaring limelight that follows them?Wei, Wang Dan, Dai Qing, Fang Lizhi and Liu Binyan. But Buruma also introduces characters less well-known in the English-speaking world...
...mood to bargain for your own Chinese art, take a 10-minute taxi ride to the Dongtai Road antiques market, where crowded stalls offer everything from kitschy Mao memorabilia to exquisitely carved Qing dynasty wooden doors hauled from nearby mountain villages. For more modern fare, hail another taxi for a five-minute ride west to the small, sleek ShanghART Gallery, where avant-garde artists show off their best work. The gallery is nestled in Fuxing Park, a secluded green space where pensioners go through the dreamlike motions of Tai Chi or hone their falsettos to traditional Shanghai opera...
...that places talented technicians with companies that need their expertise. For two years they worked as "distinguished members" of Lucent's staff, making six-figure salaries and settling into comfortable lives in suburban New Jersey. It is not clear when the two made contact with the third suspect, Yong-Qing Cheng, a vice president at the New Jersey-based IT company Village Networks. But according to investigators, the combination of Lin and Xu's insider knowledge of Lucent and Cheng's salesmanship led to the development of a business plan: take the source code for the PathStar Server, build...