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...trekked through the mists of the Huang Shan mountains, I came upon a young man painting the scenery with traditional brush and ink on rice paper. He smiled proudly as he showed me his work. It was indeed quite beautiful...for a painting, but it paled in comparison to the living scene before my eyes: a silken shimmer of pastel clouds clinging in tendrils to the tops of mountains, an endless dance of wind and fog that alternately revealed and concealed subtle changes in the dark hills beneath. How futile it must feel for a mere mortal...
...UNESCO declared Huang Shan a Cultural and Natural Property, thereby ensuring that the area's physical beauty will be preserved in perpetuity. Pheasant and deer abound. There are hundreds of indigenous plants, including ginkgo, actinidia and tinder fungus, that are said to heal the body and arouse the senses. The famous hot springs are known for their healing qualities and beautiful clear jade-green color. An hour's meditation in one of these thermal pools is a great way to end a day of hiking...
...bourgeois liberalization." He never uttered the politically incorrect word privatize, explaining that the new shareholding system is simply a modern form of "public ownership" that "can be used both under capitalism and under socialism." But few were fooled by the verbal acrobatics. "It's a deep change," says Wang Shan, a political commentator in Beijing. "The industrial worker who used to rely on the state will be thrown into the marketplace...
Jiang would not be willing to undertake such a risky change unless he felt secure in his own position. Now in his eighth year as Communist Party chief, he has been regularly dismissed as a political lightweight. But at this point, says Wang Shan, "there is really no one in the top leadership who can seriously challenge him." Premier Li Peng is no longer considered a threat; he will soon be rotated out of his government job, though he will remain No. 2 in the party. Everyone expects his replacement to be Zhu Rongji, the Vice Premier and respected economic...
...restriction was not in place implies either that the convenience of not having to approve every message manually was deemed to be greater than the risk of offensive messages being sent through the list, or that the administrator(s) of the list were simply technically incompetent. --Chung-chieh Shan...