Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been to 37 countries, but never the People's Republic of China. This initial visit occurred at a propitious time: China has introduced sweeping economic reforms that place greater emphasis on free-market forces. Time's guest journalists got a firsthand look at Chinese-style capitalism in Peking, Shanghai, Canton and in the special economic zone of Shenzhen. The high point of the visit was a 70- minute conversation with China's leader, Deng Xiaoping. While it was clear that China has a long and difficult march ahead on the capitalist road, the Time contingent came away impressed...
...would have to decide whether to believe it. Welles dragged the movies into modernism, with sequences that keep playing in any film lover's imaginary screening room: the three-story family squabble in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); the hall-of- mirrors gunfight in The Lady from Shanghai (1948); the sinuous tracking shot that opens Touch of Evil (1958) with a bang; the magnificent pacifist battle scene in Chimes at Midnight/Falstaff (1966); and the Chinese-box structure of F for Fake (1975). The last title was appropriate, for Welles ended his directorial film career as he began it, with elegant sleight...
...snotty critic called "Higgam." This role was played for a time by Director Peter Bogdanovich, who was also collaborating on a book, titled This Is Orson Welles, until Welles canceled the book. It is all a bit like that marvelous scene at the end of The Lady from Shanghai, in which Welles had Rita Hayworth and Everett Sloane firing away at each other's reflections in a fun-house hall of mirrors...
...that some of those who join the party these days--and all Chinese are free to do so except those directly implicated in the excesses of the Cultural Revolution--are joining not out of ideological conviction but out of straightforward pragmatism. Gu Dehua, a 28-year-old tailor in Shanghai who earns about $70 a month, enrolled in the party apparently in much the same spirit as a Western counterpart might sign up with the Rotarians. Did Gu see a contradiction between the Communist vision and his eagerness to collect material possessions? "Communism is the ideal," he explained, sitting...
...Eight New Evil Winds* and eventually banned by the government. But fashion is still coming on strong in Chinese life, at least in the big cities. "It's fantastic," says Pierre Cardin, as eleven Chinese models sashay up a Peking runway in black silk dresses made for him in Shanghai...