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While such officials as Hu and Li will set China's policies in future years, young professionals like Tang Yigai, 37, will be charged with making them work. Tang, a husky man who speaks rapidly, is vice director of economic research for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He was a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. "People did things they now regret," he recalls. "It was not a good time...
Turning to books for relief following the 1960s upheaval, Tang was fascinated by the work of economists, from Karl Marx to Milton Friedman. After graduating in mathematics from Xinjiang University in 1976, Tang became the first student in China since the Cultural Revolution to receive a master's degree in econometrics. He passed up a rare chance to study abroad and decided to take a government job. Says he: "I come from a very poor part of China, and I wanted to help my country develop...
...without undergoing major cuts by the censorship board. But Xu's avoidance of political fare doesn't mean she is content to churn out the clichéd boy-meets-girl comedies that are the mainstay of Chinese cinema. Her next two projects will tackle serious topics. One is a Tang-dynasty drama that she says will demonstrate that "court life is no different from street life." The other is an examination of post-9/11 America...
...takes a while to shake off his trademark decency and slip into Ahab's rasping obsession. Plus, the film's mechanical whale, which looks like a great slab of lard with a cold blue eye, kept sinking when it was meant to swim. But what matters is the saline tang of the location shooting and the acrid foretaste of doom as Ahab sails to his awful destiny, taking his crew and the audience with him on that terrifying ride...
...enforce the standards, Andy Tang, Wal-Mart's Far East manager for ethical standards, travels across China, making unexpected visits to all of the company's suppliers. In 2004, more than 6,500 representatives of suppliers and factories underwent the standards training. When Tang visits a factory, he sticks a cardboard placard on the table announcing the company's policy: no gifts, no kickbacks. He won't even sit for the traditional Chinese banquet. Some "officials are pretty moved when they see that because they're used to a different way," says Hatfield...