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...literature at least, never dismiss the lunatics. They're often the voices of reason. The Chinese learned that lesson in 1918 with Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman. This short story, which told of a world filled with bloodthirsty cannibals, was an attack on imperialists and China's own feudal system?both accused of devouring the masses. So astute was the critique that the story's madman became a revolutionary hero of sorts, and Lu Xun came to be heralded as the father of modern Chinese literature. In Ran Chen's novel A Private Life, set in Beijing...
...Salvation arrives, as it often does, in the form of a beautiful girl: a local seamstress, played by rising mainland starlet Zhou Xun. Zhou lights up the screen like a fistful of fireworks. The boys don't have a chance against her charm, by turns girlish and devilish. The darkly handsome Luo, ever the leader, stakes his claim first, his brooding eyes tracing Zhou with a hunger neither quite comprehends at first. Introverted Ma plays the third wheel but struggles to suppress his growing feelings for the seamstress...
...literally, than its predecessors. By day the sun shines through the tin roofs and sultry shacks of the Chus' shantytown in the New Territories, and by night a lunar white shines from the modern apartments of nearby Hollywood Plaza. That's where the enterprising, Shanghai girl Tong Tong (Zhou Xun) lives, dreaming of the real Hollywood, before she jolts the Chus into life, then sets them burning...
...TIME: Was Zhou Xun easy to work with? Chan: Her attitude was quite good. But she was very concerned about sex. This is a Chinese problem. If you make a movie about sex, they're very shy about it. They try to get out of doing the scene...
...Shanghai's once-stagnant real estate market is enjoying a revival. At the ritzy Oriental Plaza shopping mall, a few blocks from the Forbidden City, merchants claimed no drop in business after the attacks. "Why should what happened in the U.S. affect what I buy today?" asks Liao Xun, a Beijing hairstylist checking out Tommy Hilfiger togs. "It could actually be good news because clothes from America will be cheaper...