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...European adults carry mobile phones, this generation's lingua franca is the text message. Europe's nightclubs have made icons out of DJs who spin in different European cities every week, trailed by a transnational community of fans. "There are stronger communions that cut across national identity," says Eric Tong-Cuong, the founder of the French record company Naive. Events like London's Notting Hill Carnival and the Love Parade, the annual three-day outdoor rave in Berlin, have become massive pan-European parties. "Our generation functions tribally but you can belong to several tribes at the same time...
Meng Ruiyun didn't think she was asking too much. For years, she and her husband, Tong Yanqing, had dreamed of traveling to the U.S. for their daughter's graduation from law school. After all the family had been through, she felt she more than deserved a place alongside other proud parents enjoying the Columbia University ceremony. The journey would be the retired factory worker's first visit with her daughter Tong Yi in four years, her first taste of life outside China?and her first ride in an airplane...
...Tong was no ordinary daughter and her path to New York had been painful?for herself and her parents. As a young Chinese activist, she'd been blacklisted for her role in the 1989 student democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. The government had branded her a dangerous troublemaker for working as personal assistant to high-profile dissident, Wei Jingsheng. And she had endured a brutal 30-month term in a re-education through labor camp, then social and professional ostracism upon her release. In 1997 she made the wrenching decision to leave China to seek political asylum...
...That was in November. Meng still has had no news. She had intended to spend these weeks planning the special dinner she would cook for graduation night. Instead, like Tong , she's studying law, poring over exit-entry regulations, searching for a way to convince the authorities to let her make the trip?so she can do nothing more radical than bask in her daughter's achievements...
...PETE TONG...