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...life," declares the leader of a 1630s Anabaptist community in Antwerp. The real Luther Blissett, now retired to Watford, has expressed irritation at the identity theft but never tried to stop it. Now he can relax. Bui and his co-authors have dropped the Blissett banner and regrouped as Wu Ming (Chinese for "without a name"). They have become full-time authors and acquired a fifth member - author and punk rocker Riccardo Pedrini - and recently produced 54, a "screwball comedy" novel set in 1954 featuring Cary Grant and Yugoslavia's Josep Broz Tito. In the works is a historical fantasy...
...still isn't clear whether he and other top officials truly understand that a free flow of information is critical to a healthy society, to free markets, to long-term prosperity. "The leadership wants the country to be an economic power without changing the political system," says Wu Guoguang, a former party official now teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "But it is realizing too late that the two go together...
...Premier Wen Jiabao warned their satraps to report SARS cases factually or face punishment, and authorized a massive media campaign to educate the masses about the disease--an almost revolutionary policy shift for a leadership structure that feels more comfortable with obfuscation than openness. On Wednesday, Hu appointed Wu Yi, a tough-talking former Trade Minister, to take over responsibility for the government's fight against SARS. Some China watchers believe that the public clamor for transparency may create an opportunity for Hu, a career bureaucrat with liberal tendencies, to push for the kinds of sweeping political reforms that party...
When a medical team from the World Health Organization (WHO) met with China's Vice Premier Wu Yi on April 9, members hoped they had found an ally in their efforts to get bureaucrats to come clean on the extent of the mainland's SARS epidemic. The Communist Party's most senior woman, Wu is a tough, gray-haired former trade negotiator, and she understood that the free exchange of information on the disease, believed to have originated in China, could help WHO investigators prevent a global pandemic. Wu said she had personally dispatched crews to two provinces to investigate...
...bureaucrats whose objective is often hiding bad news from their bosses, even at the expense of public health and the country's reputation. "The leadership wants the country to be an economic power without changing the political system, but is realizing too late that the two go together," says Wu Guoguang, a former party official now teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong...