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Last fall, Wenxin “Vincent” Xu ’09 flipped through the CUE guide looking for classes with the highest ratings, and Kuriyama’s class, then East Asian Studies 17, got a 5.0. Xu praised Kuriyama’s sometimes “quirky” style of teaching for making lectures much more interesting. “He’ll show a picture of a tree and he won’t show anything else for a minute and that will be something related to the concept of chi in East...
...final project, he chose to make an film about the history of tai chi. “If it’s not a way of hurting people and not a way of meditating, how do we define what’s tai chi?” Xu said. “How many ways do you see different manifestations of the tai chi symbol?” He said the process got him thinking about the way images are connected—he started seeing similar motifs of the tai chi symbol from the flag of Mongolia...
...When Xu took the class, it was tiny, with only 12 students enrolled. This year, there are at least 60 undergraduates, a trend that Kenen and Kuriyama hope will continue. “It’s a really great example of a cross disciplinary class,” said Kenen. “It doesn’t fit neatly into one disciplinary framework and thus it’s the kind of thing that might not have worked well in the Core.” She said that the General Education program has been criticized for recycling Core...
...Xu Xing’s weapon of resistance, he said yesterday, is his memory. Chinese documentary filmmaker and writer Xing spoke at a screening here yesterday of his film “A Chronicle of My Cultural Revolution,” which details personal childhood horrors he and his generation experienced during Mao Tse-Tung’s Cultural Revolution during the 1960s and 1970s. In an event jointly sponsored by Harvard’s Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the New England China Seminar, Xing juxtaposed the brutality he witnessed with the history perpetuated by the Chinese...
...Xu Lejiang says it's already happening. He's chairman of Baosteel, one of China's giant steelmakers, and since August, he has had to cut prices twice as demand suddenly cooled off in what had been a booming industry. The era of rapid growth for Chinese steel "will soon be remembered as history," he says. The Chinese stock market has also been hit hard - it's down about 60% this year - but the nation's banking system has for the moment largely been sheltered from the international storm because it's only partly open to the global capital flows...