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...lucky ones, though the 55-year-old woman lying in her narrow metal bed in the pneumonia ward of Guangzhou's Nanfang Hospital doesn't look it. Ye Qitian's breath comes in ragged gasps, her gray-white hair is bedraggled, and she can only open her right eye halfway as she speaks to visitors. On a rainy afternoon last week, the Chinese housewife says she is recovering from what her doctors have identified as atypical pneumonia, a mysterious disease that has plagued southern China for months and is suspected to have erupted into the outside world in late February...
...necessarily liberalizing. For more than a year, the country has been on a drive to consolidate China's irrationally diverse media properties, previously operated by local, provincial and national authorities, into a handful of big, powerful players. For example, Shanghai Media and Entertainment Group (SMEG), run by former actor Ye Zhikang, is a state-owned conglomerate with 50 subsidiaries, among them two TV stations, film studios, newspapers, a pair of symphony orchestras and a puppet troupe. All existed separately until 2001, when Beijing ordered them grouped into a company that now holds a virtual monopoly on the Shanghai media market...
...gradually cede control of China's mass communications to the private sector, as it has allowed entrepreneurs to acquire factories and other tools of production? Not likely. Although a few private studios exist and censors have loosened up, "We can't have a private TV channel in Shanghai," Ye explains, "because the media must help the Communist Party lead the people...
...proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - O ye Heavens, be kind! And feel, thou Earth, for this afflicted Race...
...Though its pace drags and its tone is too unvarying, the movie shares the sweet melancholy of the novel. Both versions evoke a wistful longing for the irretrievable drama of youth. Teenage pals Ma (Liu Ye) and Luo (Chen Kun), inheritors of the bourgeois crimes of their doctor parents, are sent for re-education to the primitive if not remarkably picturesque mountain village of Phoenix on the Sky. The work is tough and the conditions harsh. Even worse, all books are banned?except little red ones. Western music is equally verboten as Ma, the film's violin-playing narrator, discovers...