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...ARTS Books: Afghan Women Books: Yu Hua comes West...
Before turning to fiction in the early 1980s, Chinese writer Yu Hua toiled as a country dentist. So it's no surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind...
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...quickest way to get relaxed." YU CHENG-HSIEN, Interior Minister of Taiwan, on massage. Taiwanese Premier Yu Shyi-kun has ordered an investigation into allegations that the minister received sexual massages paid for by businessmen
...China's selection two years ago to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, when Beijingers thronged Tiananmen Square to celebrate their national ascendancy. "If it succeeds, expect a sudden propaganda campaign to instill feelings of patriotism and nationalism and unite the people around new national heroes," says political commentator Yu...