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...phony charge that she, too, is a spy. In June she left for the United States and self-imposed exile. Yes, the big picture now is that China is open. But that can hardly be taken for granted. "For the moment, we are beginning a period of openness," says Tsai, the Ming dynasty historian. "But there is always a challenge: another group afraid of opening up, afraid of threats to stability...
CHRISTINE TSAI-YI TSUNG President and CEO, China Airlines...
...Crouching Tiger to send the collective spirit soaring, no Dancer in the Dark to set the critics at knifepoint. There was, however, a common thread in many Asian films. From the usually insular Iranians to the peripatetic Chinese, top auteurs were literally on the move, making road movies. Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan) and Jacob Cheung (Hong Kong) went to France; Cheung also touched down in Africa, as did Iran's Abbas Kiarostami. And although Hong Kong is now officially part of the People's Republic, a trip to Beijing (for Mabel Cheung and Stanley Kwan) or Suzhou (for Yonfan...
...Tsai's What Time Is It There? takes place in Taipei and Paris. A street vendor (Lee Kang-sheng) who deals in wristwatches reluctantly sells the one he is wearing to a woman headed for France. In empathy or mourning, he soon is compelled to change all available timepieces?including huge clocks on building faCades?seven hours back, to Paris time. Shot in long takes with a static point of view and hardly any dialogue, the film may goad restless viewers to ask, not "What time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around...
...half the time, on East Meets West, Tsai cooks expert fusion fare. The other half, on his new food-adventure show Ming's Quest, he's diving for sea urchins, falling off horses or staring down alligators like the Crocodile Hunter. Likewise, Bobby Flay and Mario Batali have taken their chef stars on the road in their own travel series. As Tsai puts it, "The network wanted to get us out of the kitchen." The few remaining hard-core cooking shows succeed because they have a gimmick, like Sara Moulton's stump-the-chef call-in show Cooking Live...