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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...over a few touchy-feely scenes, Lai is an inspired selection. Lai for the most part leaves the leaping chest kicks and pistol wielding to police counterpart Kin, played by Ekin Cheng (Twins Effect), and instead uses his powers of subconscious persuasion to free his wife (played by newcomer Xu Jinglei) from Ng's grasp. For Lai, acting the heartsick husband longing to be reunited with his significant other comes naturally. Lines such as "The greatest happiness in my life is to be with you" sound as if they were lifted from his 1996 feel-good romancer Comrade: Almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...SENTENCED. JIN HAIKE, 26, XU WEI, 28, YANG ZILIN, 32, and ZHANG HONGHAI, 29, members of a Chinese study group; to extended prison terms for "subverting state power"; in Beijing. The four men were arrested in 2001 after they formed the New Youth Study Group to discuss sociopolitical issues and to write essays, some of which were posted online. Given that Communist Party organs have begun publicly discussing once taboo subjects such as political reform, the severity of the sentences?Jin and Xu have each been handed 10 years in prison and the others eight?has shocked human-rights activists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

...This lad's mother is very worried," Wu says, pointing to a boy named Xu. "Both his parents played for city teams, and the mother, especially, wants him to be another Yao. But the X ray shows that he will be only 2.05 meters at the most, so there is no hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Would Be Ming | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

...sentenced to prison in 1998 after calling for free elections; to the U.S. Although Fang was released from prison last July, he was detained again in November as part of a government crackdown prior to the 16th Party Congress. His expulsion comes a month after pro-democracy activist Xu Wenli was released and exiled, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

Sophia Lai ’04, a social studies concentrator in Currier House, is co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association. Silas Xu ’05, an applied math concentrator in Cabot House, is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association...

Author: By Sophia Lai and Silas Xu, SOPHIA LAI AND SILAS XUS | Title: The Invisible Minority | 1/17/2003 | See Source »

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