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...Rise of a Superstar The article on basketball star Yao Ming and the controlling role played by Chinese authorities [Nov. 14] convinces me that the transformation of China can be better achieved by economics, not by politics. Large corporations can show the way by providing tangible examples of how the Chinese people can have a better standard of living through their individual efforts and creativity. Political rhetoric and mismanagement are not effective. Tsang Kwok Choong Singapore...
Officials in Linyi deny that anything improper has happened. "All these things are either exaggerated, distorted or not based on facts," says an official surnamed Yao (he wouldn't give his full name) at the Linyi municipal family-planning commission. But national-level cadres concede that something has gone terribly wrong. "We have heard about the situation in Shandong, and it's totally against national law," a member of the State Family Planning Commission's secretariat in Beijing told TIME. "We are investigating the situation now." A public statement from the commission said that central and provincial authorities have cautioned...
...Setting the Record Straight One is Left Our Milestone on the death of radical Maoist Zhang Chunqiao [May 23] said in error that he was "the last surviving member of China's notorious Gang of Four." There is still one remaining member, Yao Wenyuan, who is living in Shanghai...
...popular convention site, is on the Metrorail route, close to Reliant Stadium (home of the Houston Texans and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo). So are the hotels and high-rises of Houston's downtown business district. Near the northern end of the rails lie the Toyota Center, where Yao Ming's Rockets hold court, and Minute Maid Park (known locally as the Juice Box), where Roger Clemens pitches...
...hope of Chinese political reformers, who lost his post after he publicly sided with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters; in Beijing. Zhao joined the Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...