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...have left galleries and dealers scrambling to keep up with the demand. Sotheby's held its first sale of purely Chinese contemporary art in New York City only last March. A dozen or so foreign galleries from New York, London and Hong Kong have opened branches in Beijing and Shanghai in the past 19 months. Meanwhile, scores of local galleries have sprung...
...CHINA Brought to Shanghai from Japan in 1874, rickshaws were banned as symbols of bourgeois imperialism by Mao Zedong in 1949-although the sanlunche, a rickshaw descendant pulled by the more proletarian bicycle, still carries tourists through the alleys near Mao's portrait in Tiananmen Square
Invented in Japan, rickshaws became a ubiquitous symbol of Western imperialism in the 19th century as native coolies hauled around their foreign masters in places as far afield as Shanghai and Zanzibar. But as they were steadily replaced by more efficient-and less demeaning-conveyances, the two-wheeled, human-powered carriages gradually disappeared from streets around the world. Now, the rickshaw's long, bumpy road is at a dead end. Calcutta, the last major metropolis with a traditional rickshaw fleet still in operation, will ban them following a state law passed last week declaring the vehicles "inhumane." Here are some...
...Shanghai native Meijie “MJ” Tang ’09 says she was approached by six Chinese publishers about writing a book after gaining early admission to Harvard in the fall of 2004, but rejected them...
Shen says that during his last years of high school in Shanghai, several U.S. institutions including Harvard, Yale, University of Virginia, and Middlebury College came to recruit at his high school...