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...today's firewall with the help of software that guides them to overseas "proxy servers," computers that enable them to fetch and view banned content. Activists smuggle proxy software into China and pass it hand-to-hand on flash memory devices. "It's really cat and mouse," says Bill Xia, president of U.S.-based Dynamic Internet Technology, whose product bounces users among many proxy servers, making it hard to track the surfer's identity...
...spent most of his life in the thick of politics, Deng has remained unusually close to his family. Since the death of his father in 1938, his household has included his stepmother Xia Baigen. He helps support an aunt and uncle, 86 and 83, respectively, who still live at the old Sichuan family home in Paifang. After the Cultural Revolution, he arranged for his son Deng Pufang to receive medical treatment in the U.S. He is now director of China's Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Deng Zhifang, 34, is a graduate researcher in physics at New York's University...
...students have also taken to Wen, who has fashioned himself into a man of the people by mixing with locals on camera?something Jiang and his coterie rarely bothered to do. "He has a nice face and seems to really care about people," says a Fudan University student surnamed Xia. "I feel I can trust him more than the old leaders." And so it is that a health crisis exacerbated by political incompetence and deceit has turned into a political windfall for China's new leaders...
...Cultural Revolution was the setting for Jiang's first film as a director, In the Heat of the Sun, which won the best actor prize at Venice in 1994 for actor Xia Yu. But it was no ordinary tale from that often portrayed time. The movie, based on a short story by Wang, follows five guys and a girl running wild during one summer of Chairman Mao's engineered chaos: no school, no curfew, no authority figures, just a sexy, violent, exhilarating time. "For people my age," says Jiang, "the Cultural Revolution was actually a lot of fun. We were...
...When Xiaohong, a 1.52-m law student from Gansu province, decided to submit to the knife, she knew securing a reputable surgeon like Xia would mean fees more than double her entire college tuition. Her father, the only family member who knows about the $12,000 surgery, agreed that it would be an investment in Xiaohong's future. "First impressions are what matters," says Xiaohong, perched on her hospital cot. "People in China will always pick the taller woman, even if the shorter person is more talented." When Xiaohong finishes the six-month exercise and rehab program in Beijing...