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...About a month ago, Liu, in the words of one London trader, "simply vanished." The Financial Times quoted a source saying that last week Liu was at home in Shanghai with his cell phone turned off, but TIME was unable to confirm this. Meanwhile, the SRB has appeared to disavow his deals; the state-owned China Daily newspaper quoted an SRB official saying that any losses were the result "of personal actions" by Liu "instead of the government...
Among the photographs in James Whitlow Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they...
...Like the view of Shanghai, many of Delano's China photographs, on exhibit in November at La Triennale di Milano Museum in Milan, Italy, use the tools of the darkroom to make a familiar scene eerie or allegorical. Delano shoots in black and white, but he prints in black and gray. His photos look as if they've been rubbed with charcoal and might smudge if touched. The China he depicts is a somber, worn, dusty place, often devoid of the hopeful gleam it wears on billboards, state TV?and in real life. Few of the people pictured smile...
...arrival as a chance to show their own people and the world that their country has taken its place among the responsible world powers. "The U.S. can sleep soundly and not worry that China will create problems," says Shen Dingli, an expert on international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai, whose comments are typical of Chinese analysts. "In the future, China will be more democratic and will have a stronger legal system, but for now it is inward looking, trying to solve its own problems...
...trip's focus from selling Californian products-think of all the Napa Valley wine that the Chinese could quaff!-to convincing China to combat the rampant piracy of Hollywood films and Silicon Valley software. On Thursday, the Governor will attend a premiere of the newest Harry Potter movie in Shanghai, although pirated copies of the film are already widely available in the city...