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HUDS has made additions in the past week that added costs, “but not too much,” Mayer said, adding that the beginning of the spring menu on Wednesday will usher in Monday-night Shanghai lettuce wraps and a recurring make-your-own-pudding...
...illegal expropriation of their land for a tourism complex. Sure enough, as the case dragged through the courts over the past year, the remaining residents of what was once a picturesque village set amid the bamboo-forested hills of Jiangsu province about 125 miles (200 km) west of Shanghai say they were subject to intimidation ranging from officials pressuring their employers to downright murder threats. One stubborn farmer was sent a text message last June that concluded: "Your life hangs by a thread. If you don't come around immediately. I will make sure you get run over...
...other hand, there's Rent Collection Courtyard. It's a replica of more than 100 life-size clay statues that were originally crafted in Shanghai in 1965 as pure Maoist agitprop, a tableau of peasants being abused by a greedy landlord and his thugs. In 1999 Cai had a team of artisans reproduce the ensemble for the Venice Biennale. Set in a new context, as they are again at the Guggenheim, the figures took on a new meaning. They became artifacts of a bygone communist order and the lost power of its coercive spectacles...
...years of pent-up curiosity would finally be satiated--at least a little. I've covered this country on and off for almost two decades--from Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai--but despite repeated requests for a visa, I'd never been allowed in. Perhaps this was because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we're still technically at war with North Korea. More likely it was because my stories about this little-known country had not exactly flattered its despotic rulers: the late Great Leader Kim Il Sung and his son, Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Now, thanks...
...many of us, if there is a dark side of the moon here on earth, North Korea is it. On and off for the better part of 20 years, from postings in Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai, I have been covering North Korea - to the extent that a journalist can cover a place he has actually never been to. Three times previously, I had applied for an official journalist's visa to do reporting in the North - to no avail. Partly, I've always assumed, that's because I'm a U.S. citizen, and we have been technically...