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...ARTS Movies: Jiang Wen Books: Port of Last Resort When I Was a Young...
...Marcia Reynders Ristaino's aptly named book, Port of Last Resort (Stanford University Press; 380 pages) traces the story of two of the communities?the White Russians and Jews?that gave the city its reputation. The decadence of old Shanghai has attracted many writers, but Ristaino's argument is that most have concentrated on the Western ?lites, or the Chinese communities they ruled, overlooking the rich contribution made by the waves of refugees who pitched up on its hostile shores. No visa or passport was required to enter Shanghai and that fact above all others gave the city its character...
...ARTS Movies: Jiang Wen Books: Port of Last Resort When I Was a Young...
...favorite Harvard moment occurred in the Bahamas during Spring Break 2002. About 30 of us found ourselves in a vast resort on Grand Bahama Island with a number of cheap-o liquor stores and a bevy of buxom high school girls. We seemed sure of ourselves, strolling about in pastel Polo shirts with a few pairs of Prada sunglasses, sipping rum-and-tonics by the sea. For all intents and purposes, I think we looked pretty cool, but after the experiences of one fateful evening, we sunk into the inevitable effluvium of dorkdom. No matter how many girls sported this...
Sakhalin is a one-way trip." That's what a Russian official once told me, alluding to Sakhalin's nefarious reputation as the penal colony of last resort, whose very name was said to make a man faint from fear. A chrysalis-shaped island at the entrance to the Sea of Okhotsk in the deepest reaches of the Russian Far East, Sakhalin's remoteness, fierce natural conditions and notoriety have made it one of Asia's most foreboding places to visit. But the isolated island is changing?albeit very slowly?from a once closed and alienated enclave into a travel...