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...Athens Oct. 11, 2004 As Liu Xiang raced to victory in the 110-m hurdles at the Athens Olympics, his legs pumping to clock a world record-tying time of 12.91 sec., the panic in sports announcers' voices was palpable. Even though China had touted the 21-year-old Shanghai native as a medal hopeful, few in the West knew that China had a decent hurdler. Stunned by the victory, a Greek TV announcer stammered: "In first place, it's ? it's a Chinese man." Foiled by the X in Liu's given name, the broadcaster sidestepped the problem...
This January, Lewis, the McKay professor of computer science, is scheduled to present a series of talks and lectures in Hong Kong about his book “Excellence Without A Soul,” with a potential stopover in Shanghai, according to Peter Gordon ’80, the head of the independent Hong Kong publisher Chameleon Press...
...Asked if wine is now certifiably hot in China, Mirey, the former sommelier at Petrus, a splashy French restaurant in Hong Kong's Island Shangri-La hotel, grins and says, "Oh yeah." Well, maybe - or maybe not. Despite a proliferation of trendy wine bars and stores in Shanghai and Beijing, China as a whole remains a huge disappointment for the world's winemakers. Just a few years ago, there were broad expectations that China would be the Next Big Thing in the wine world, following in the footsteps of Japan and South Korea, which have both developed into substantial export...
Laurence Henry Tribe was born on Oct. 10, 1941 in Shanghai, China to parents George and Polia, members of the Eastern European Jewish diaspora that populated parts of eastern China...
...native of Belarus, traversed nine time zones to reach Harbin, Manchuria, Polia’s birthplace, where the couple met in the late 1920s. He continued on to California—becoming an American citizen—and later returned to Harbin. Laurence was born in Japanese-occupied Shanghai just two months before Pearl Harbor. George was interned on account of his citizenship, leaving Polia to care for their...