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...shaped in a permanent 'O,' as if surprised to find themselves rolling off the production line of a dingy Chinese factory. The sheer variety of sex toys, both anatomically correct and physiologically implausible, being readied for shipment from Wenzhou Loves Health Products is disturbing. But as company president Wu Wei says, "Everyone has their own taste." Which, hopefully, explains the inflatable cow?a black-spotted Holstein?tucked in the corner. "The cow is ordered by European companies," Wu says, "maybe because Westerners treat animals more equally...
...rare that you go to a restaurant and find your interview subject already at the red wine. No sooner do we sit down than Zhao Wei offers us a glass, then waits five minutes before prising the cigarettes from our hand. She talks casually about weight problems, paying tax bills and Pen?lope Cruz. It's like being down the pub with your best mate seeking shelter from a storm?in this case the wild winds of Zhao's cinematic success...
...entrance to my parents' home in Manhattan is an old poster of the Big Apple that reads: "You have to be a little crazy to live in New York, but you'd be nuts to live anywhere else." The first time veteran Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng came to visit, he asked me to translate the words for him. Chuckling heartily, he pointed to his nose. "Just like me," he said, suddenly somber. "You have to be a little crazy to stand up to the Chinese government, but it's nuts not to." Exiled after 18 brutal years in prison, Wei...
...international landscape of Chinese heterodoxies, an encyclopedic Who's Who of troublemakers that is engagingly anecdotal, often surprising and deeply insightful. Readers already acquainted with China's political topography will find fresh profiles of familiar figures who are often lost in the glaring limelight that follows them?Wei, Wang Dan, Dai Qing, Fang Lizhi and Liu Binyan. But Buruma also introduces characters less well-known in the English-speaking world...
...finish their Happy Meals. On Dec. 16, a bomb jolted through the fast-food joint, sending patrons and Big Macs flying. The explosion killed two, injured 27 and stunned the entire city. "Things like this are supposed to happen in dangerous places, like the Middle East," says Liu Wei, a cashier who works in the same shopping complex as the town's only McDonald's. "I never thought it would happen in China...