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...Anaheim, Calif., which opened 50 years ago this week. But Walt's vision of idyllic small-town America now has a surprisingly un-Midwestern twist. Inside one Victorian building is Main Street's first Chinese restaurant, the Plaza Inn, crafted as a stylish tea shop from early 20th century Shanghai. The interior has traditional landscapes of the Chinese countryside painted on the walls. The murals have been based on the Disney animated movie Mulan, which was inspired by a Chinese legend. Soon the workers in white hard hats, who are still screwing the final bolts in place, will hang fish...
Rising Sun & Beatle Blood. The most celebrated Push Pin alumnus is Peter Max, 28, a walrus-mustached native of Berlin. Max likes to explain that his flair for star-crossed psychedelic patterns was instilled during his boyhood days in Shanghai, where he watched Buddhist monks painting at a nearby pagoda. Max's designs, exploited through corporate tie-ups with half a dozen companies including General Electric, and emblazoned on posters, cups, plates, decals, and medallions, make him the grooviest thing going. He zaps about Manhattan with his blonde, beret-crowned wife in a decal-covered 1952 Rolls-Royce with...
...Weiming, 36, followed a zigzag route to his job as senior deputy director of Shanghai's propaganda bureau. A wiry and energetic man, Pan tilled rice and ran a small pesticide plant in the Jinggang mountains of central China during the Cultural Revolution. At 28 he enrolled in Peking University, where he studied Chinese literature and was elected chairman of the student union. Returning to Shanghai after finishing school, Pan joined the city's propaganda department and rose quickly. "Living with peasants for eight years," he reflects, "I saw how poor and backward our country was. The poverty shook...
CITIC owes much of its style and substance to Rong, whose own history parallels China's recent twists and turns. A Shanghai industrialist and deputy mayor of that city, Rong watched the nationalization of his factories after the Communist takeover. He and his wife were beaten by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, his Shanghai home was expropriated, and he was forced to clean latrines. After spending the next decade in obscurity, Rong was publicly rehabilitated in the late 1970s. He now lives in a comfortable Peking house and is tended by servants. Says...
...acts from everywhere on the globe, except the People's Republic of China. But this year the "plentitudes of pachyderm precision" at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have been joined by "a charismatic, candescent constellation of allegiant acrobatics," by which the circus shills mean the 15-member Shanghai Acrobatic Troupe. The booking took nearly 14 years of talks with the Peking government. To make their guests comfortable, the circus stocked up on rice "by the major bagful," built a special train car with a Chinese-style kitchen and put in a VCR on which the visitors play almost...