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...acknowledges that the gritty modern Gaomi is very different from the midcentury, rural township of his fiction - a place where peasants ride stoic donkeys and heavily laden camels walk the dusty streets. Film buffs may know it from Zhang Yimou's 1988 adaptation of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, set during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote to the 350 million or so Chinese born...
...Red is the color of anger, danger and protest. So it's fitting that supporters of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, have chosen deep scarlet as their identifying hue. Tens of thousands of Red Shirts have thronged Bangkok's government district since March 12 in increasingly virulent demonstrations demanding that current Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down and hold new elections. But red is also the color of blood, and in response to Abhisit's steadfast refusal to resign, the Red Shirts decided to shed their own. As dawn broke on March...
Maintaining a three-point lead, the Red Foxes continued to put the pressure on McCarthy, taking a 7-4 lead into the locker room at halftime...
During the opening of this year’s season, the Crimson faced rival Marist in a tight battle but fell, 12-10. This Saturday, in its last competition before Northern Division play begins, Harvard (11-9) again fell by two goals to the Red Foxes (7-12), losing, 10-8, in Poughkeepsie...
...first quarter started with a rampage from Marist as the Red Foxes took a 5-2 lead, with back-to-back goals from Marist senior Rachel Sunday, who was a thorn in the Crimson’s side the entire match...