Word: xin
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...conscripted into one of Shanghai's 83 "comfort centers." Along with 15 other surviving comfort women from various Asian countries, Zhu joined an ongoing class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government filed in the U.S. in 2000. "Her only wish was to get justice," her son, Zhou Xin, said in a statement to Chinese media after her death...
...public forgave, or forgot. Lucky that it did, because now audiences will get to see her in Jade Goddess as An Xin, a policewoman who faces an unwanted pregnancy, friction at headquarters and an affair with a drug trafficker (Tse) whom she is assigned to hunt down. Zhao's performance must, and does, show the weight of these dilemmas as they threaten to crush her. The mood on the set was nearly as serious as that in the film, but Zhao says she respects the care Hui took with every element of production. "In the morning, when I'd come...
After the drinking's done, head for comfort food at Xin Jiu Long, tel: (86-10) 6255 7348, one of Beijing's best restaurants. For the past decade this University District eatery has packed them in with a menu of several regional cuisines, though the house specialty is Sichuan. Tucked in an intimate neighborhood behind the Yansha Hotel and across from People's University, the restaurant is divided into three public dining rooms on the ground floor and private ones upstairs. Sit at a table by the windows in the main room for a view of one of the capital...
...featured films during the week-long festival displayed a remarkable variety of emotional and stylistic registers. The opening film, Dazzling, at which both the director Li Xin and producer Sara Chen were present, is a racy, disjointed pastiche in riotous color, set against a pulsating techno soundtrack, with palpable influences as various as Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire and magic realism. According to the director, a member of the up-and-coming Sixth Generation, “In their films, the technique compensates for the lack of compelling, or serious, subject matter.” In fact, technique...
Soho means chic in China these days, thanks to Beijing Redstone Industrie, a real estate firm owned by Chinese-born Pan Shiyi, 38, and his wife Zhang Xin, 35, a Cambridge-educated former Goldman, Sachs investment analyst. Condos in the company's debut project, Soho New Town, a sleek development, enjoyed sizzling sales among Beijing's burgeoning capitalist class despite prices of $241,000 to $422,000. Asian papers report that the travel-loving duo hopes to go public this year to fund construction of a hotel near the Great Wall, villas on Hainan island and more Beijing condos...