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...Although it remains his touchstone, Mo Yan acknowledges that the gritty modern Gaomi is very different from the midcentury, rural township of his fiction - a place where peasants ride stoic donkeys and heavily laden camels walk the dusty streets. Film buffs may know it from Zhang Yimou's 1988 adaptation of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, set during the Japanese occupation. In fact, much of Mo Yan's fiction - from the 1996 epic he describes as his magnum opus, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, to Frog, published at the end of 2009 - is set in a world seemingly remote...
...Half-day township tours cost $51. World Cup fans may also want to check out the Diski tour, in which you get to play soccer against a township team, followed by a braai (barbecue). See gocamissa.co.za for more...
...thing," says Samantha Mtinini, who leads tours of the Langa township in the suburbs of Cape Town. "We reap economic rewards and our guests learn of our hopes and dreams. And we all benefit from understanding that while we have cultural differences, we are the same in so many ways." (See 50 essential travel tips...
...primary. He's striking a chord with those who have spent the past three decades working to get Specter out of office. "I think there's been too much Republican lite and not enough real Democrats around," says Darwin Roseberry, a Democratic committeeman from West Rockhill Township who showed up to hear Sestak speak at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Bucks County. "Specter is not a real Democrat...
Harvard Christian Impact, which won $27,950, proposed the creation of a tutoring program that brings together students from Harvard and the University of Pretoria at the Mamelodi Township in South Africa. Former Christian Impact co-coordinator Michael P. Silvestri ’10 said he was inspired to start the program after traveling to South Africa with Christian Impact in the summer...