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...than-ideal schussing conditions, requires thousands of tons of water in a region already suffering from drought. With Chinese skiers clamoring for tougher runs and posher digs, Western ski-resort companies are scouting out the market-just as foreign golf-course firms did a few years earlier. This week, Shanghai will host the first-ever Asia Pacific Snow Conference, aimed at educating Chinese on everything from managing ski resorts to choosing the best snowboard wax. Canadian ski-resort developer Intrawest Corp., which runs Whistler Blackcomb, says it may start work on up to five new resorts in China...
...moment, though, even a place like Shanghai, hardly known for glacial temperatures, is cashing in on China's ski boom. The city is home to Asia's largest indoor ski dome, Yinqixing (Seven Silver Stars). With a slope that's just 380 m long, the $36 million facility isn't designed for serious ski bums. The steepest section of the hill is only 17 degrees, the snow feels more like Sno-Cone crystals than real powder and there are no lifts-just an escalator that takes skiers partway up the slope. Still, a Yinqixing spokesman says the facility has recorded...
Malcolm: It was inspired by a very true story that happened in my husband’s family. He did have an aunt whose parents went to Shanghai and completely reinvented themselves. It was Hemingway who said all good fiction is autobiographical—I didn’t realize until the novel was finished how much...
Malcolm sweeps her protagonist through both World Wars, the Hungarian revolution, and the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. He is seduced at the age of 14 and blackmailed by Shanghai gangsters. He commits murder and adultery, renounces Judaism, and loses both real and foster family to violence...
...government, which recruits him as a translator. This takes him to Paris, where he meets the love of his life, who agrees to marry him on the strength of one pastry. But a twist of events sparked by the discovery of his Jewish heritage forces him to flee to Shanghai to start anew...