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...argues in his sweeping memoir China Hands that this historical puzzler is a red herring: America never had China, and the very idea is counterproductive. To influence China, America first has to respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life. China Hands, which is co-authored by Lilley's journalist son, Jeffrey, is a survey of postimperial Chinese history, a compendium of American blunders in troublesome nations, and it has some pretty good locker...
...RELEASED. SEOK JAE HYUN, 34, the only foreign journalist known to be imprisoned in China; in Qingdao. A South Korean freelance photographer who has worked for the New York Times, Seok was arrested in January 2003 while covering a failed attempt by North Korean defectors to flee to South Korea and Japan in fishing boats. Because of international pressure, he was freed after serving 14 months of his two-year sentence for human trafficking...
...thrived in so many different art forms and has achieved international acclaim for all. In January, Tan won the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum, which held a major exhibition of his works at Davos. Tan is also currently building the first Earth Art Museum in Qingdao, China?a $690,000 project that sprawls over two mountainous kilometers?where Tan directs a crew of carvers to inscribe his calligraphy into the rock-filled museum. He has had 36 books of his Chinese poetry published and his paintings are regularly sold to collectors throughout Asia. "Tan Swie Hian is Singapore...
...master thief with the requisite heart of gold, to help him get the sharira. In turn, Eric involves his old girlfriend Lin (Yeoh) and her little brother Tong (Brandon Chang), star performers in a Chinese circus and descendants of the acrobatic family of destiny. The action careens from Qingdao to Dun Huang to Tibet, stopping for comic relief along the way. There is also some fighting, though not nearly enough...
...past few years, Haier has quietly become the world's sixth largest home-appliance maker. Based in the coastal city of Qingdao and led by a quality-obsessed 52-year-old CEO, Zhang Riumin, Haier has factories in Asia, Europe and the U.S., which produce "white goods" from washing machines to microwaves, along with an array of consumer products such as cell phones, TVs and PC peripherals. Global sales topped $7 billion last year, while profits neared $100 million. The company has been publicly traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since...