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...Deng Xiaoping's maxim "To get rich is glorious," Yue's paintings capture China's exuberant love affair with consumerism. But even as he also satirizes his countrymen's headlong race to make money, the native of Daqing, a grim oil town in China's northeast, doesn't view his shiny new millionaire status with much irony. "What's wrong with laughing?" Yue demands with a serious face, digging into a Shanghai eatery's rendition of braised pork shoulder, a quivering delicacy synonymous with nouveau riche fulfillment. "China isn't all dark anymore. We should be happy...
...challenges the official version of Zhou's role during the Cultural Revolution, during which an entire generation of Chinese intellectuals - including the author's mother - was purged and exiled to the countryside. Rather than mitigating the worst excesses of Mao's disastrous anti-rightist campaign - as the prevailing view holds - Zhou was an active, if not always enthusiastic, participant. Gao cites evidence in Zhou's own hand: "From now on you make all the decisions, and I'll make sure they're carried out," the Premier wrote to Mao's power-hungry wife Jiang Qing...
...shopping, dining and bar-hopping place in recent years. You can stop at shops featuring handicrafts, antiques and trendy clothes along the hutong, or lane, leading up to Yinding Bridge, before enjoying some authentic Vietnamese cuisine at Nuage, tel: (86-10) 6401 9581. This restaurant club has a stunning view of the lake area and the nearby ancient Drum Tower, which was built in 1420 and used to signal the time during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For after-dinner cocktails, the Alpha Omega Club, tel: (86-10) 6612 9898 is on the west bank of Shichahai and within...
...WOVD tournament. Designed by the nation's architectural doyen, Vann Molyvann, the Modernist facility was one of the high-tide marks of Cambodia's post-independence achievements, but the nation slid into civil war before it could be properly put to use. Today, the complex is hidden from view by a garish Chinese shophouses that obscure its perimeter walls, but the facilities have been restored. All the matches in the WOVD competition will be played in an indoor stadium and are free to the public. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, the patron of the disabled league, will preside over...
...According to Harris, “the Libertarian Party is a joke,” (another widely-held view amongst “academic libertarians”). Harris thinks that even serious libertarians will continue along traditional party lines...