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...restore the body's equilibrium and balance the flow of vital energy, or qi. As a devotee of traditional Chinese medicine himself, Gamon would be a sympathetic modernizer of tonic menus, and he can expect a very well-stocked pantry: Red White & Pure is a venture of Eu Yan Sang, a Singapore-based herbal-medicine company known throughout much of the Chinese-speaking world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicinal Purposes | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

Tonight’s panel will present the personal experiences of six students from different ethnic backgrounds who all identify with the queer community. On Thursday night, spoken word performer Kit Yan will read poetry addressing the topic “Asian and Queer Identity” at Café Gato Rojo...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BGLTSA To Hold Awareness Week | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...past 19 months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. At a Christie's auction in October in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong, Yan Lei and Zhang Xiaogang set record prices. Another Christie's auction in Hong Kong in November broke records again: a 1993 painting by Zhang went for $2.3 million, the most ever paid for a work by a living Chinese artist at international auction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great China Sale | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...SENTENCES UPHELD. For Chen Guangcheng, 34, blind human-rights advocate who exposed forced sterilizations and abortions by family-planning officials in China's Shandong province; and Zhao Yan, 44, Chinese New York Times researcher accused of leaking state secrets; in Linyi and Beijing. While their cases were unrelated, irregularities in Chen and Zhao's trials-on charges of public disturbance and influence-peddling, respectively-drew international condemnation. Of the simultaneous announcements last Friday that the convictions would stand, Human Rights Watch senior researcher Mickey Spiegel said: "It's just a very bad day for justice in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...months Sotheby's has created a stand-alone modern-Chinese-art division, and Christie's showcases the art alongside such modern masters as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning. And at a Christie's auction last week in New York City, pieces by Chinese painters Li Songsong and Yan Lei set record prices, while Zhang Xiaogang's A Big Family Series No. 16 went for $1.36 million, surpassing its highest estimate. The Warhol Mao, of course, dwarfed all those sales, going for $17.4 million, suggesting that there's plenty of life in Western art yet. (And that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great China Sale | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

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