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Christians from the West have tried to save the souls of the Chinese for centuries. In the late 1500s the arrival of Italian Mateo Ricci?the first Jesuit to show up on China's shores?threw the Ming court into a tizzy: his hosts initially viewed him as a savage for carrying an idol of a long-haired fellow nailed to a cross. In the 1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s...
...China has held an allure for religious emissaries since Ricci in the 16th century, then today's Mecca is Yunnan province, which abuts Burma. It attracts Christian workers for its distance from the country's political medulla in Beijing, its poverty and its large number of isolated minority hill tribes. So many Christian families have located in Yunnan that they have set up a school for their kids. The Kunming International Academy, nestled against an apartment complex in Yunnan's capital, Kunming, began with two families in 1994 and now has 100 students from 18 countries. It is run like...
...Sweet Charity, that frothy cream puff of a musical, goes up next weekend in the Loeb against the anything but frothy Kiss of the Spider Woman in the Agassiz. Verrry interesting. I wonder which will get more buzz?... Said creepy director Vincent Gallo of his Buffalo 66 star Christina Ricci, "She was okay when she wasn't drunk on the set. I think she's an alcoholic-either that or she was on cough syrup the whole time."... I think Garth Brooks' recent retirement is a bit of a hoax. He's still desperate to break that Beatles' sale record...
Based on a book by Elizabeth L. Wurtzel '89, a former Crimson editor, the screenplay features a Harvard student--played by actor Christina Ricci--and her struggles mental depression while in college...
...Actors Ricci, Jessica Lange, Jason Biggs and Michelle Williams all made appearances in Cambridge for the shooting of the Millennium Films production...