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...prolific scholars, Fei helped lay the foundation for sociology in China, only to fall from grace during the Cultural Revolution for studying what was considered a capitalist science. Rehabilitated, he became Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, and later served as an adviser to then-Shanghai party secretary Jiang Zemin during the 1989 student-led democracy movement...
...been three weeks since more than 10,000 people staged massive anti-Japanese protests in the city of Shanghai, throwing rotten tomatoes at the Japanese consulate, breaking windows of Japanese eateries and overturning Japanese-brand vehicles while police did little to stop the violence. So it was a surprise early last week when the local media reported that 42 people had belatedly been detained for allegedly disturbing social order and damaging the city's image. The announcement was quickly followed by an editorial in the local Communist Party mouthpiece Liberation Daily labeling the demonstrations over Japan's perceived unwillingness...
...Fake Watch Heir to a U.S. steel fortune, and a Columbia University business school grad, RANDOLPH HOBSON GUTHRIE III (right) moved to Shanghai in 1995 and lived it up on a $120,000 annual trust-fund allowance. In 2003, he began earning a reported $25,000 a month selling DVDs online to customers around the world. Turns out those movies were pirated?and Guthrie has become the poster boy for China's antipiracy campaign. Last week, a Shanghai court sentenced the 38-year-old to 30 months in prison. (Two local accomplices and another American were also jailed.) Still, Guthrie...
...1940s Shanghai, lovable vagabond Sing (played by writer/director/star Stephen Chow) accidentally sets off a war between the murderous Axe Gang and the residents of a quaint slum called Pig Sty. The latter are revealed to be not quite as helpless as they seem—an unusual number of them turn out to be Kung Fu masters—and wild fight scenes break out, with more than a little help from computer graphics and wire suspension. Sing, whose delivery is more Bill Murray than Jet Li, is caught in the middle—should he suck...
...naked body. For whom the bell tolls ? These days in the world of contemporary art, it seems to be tolling for China - from established art stars like Zhang and gunpowder virtuoso Cai Guo-Qiang to the new generation of artists, spawned by the sprawling studio complexes of Beijing and Shanghai, who seem to show up at every international biennale these days. Curator Binghui Huangfu, director of Sydney's Asia-Australia Arts Centre, predicts that over the next 20 years the art world will be increasingly focused on China. "If you're not really interested in being a part...