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...Crimson Arts Critic Mildred M. Yuan can be reached at yuan@fas.harvard.edu...
...days of walking on frostbitten feet, Kim reached a town and found work sorting eggs at a poultry factory. But a truck driver who was irked when she refused to sleep with him reported her to the police. On the truck back to North Korea, Kim swallowed a 50-yuan note wrapped in plastic. When she reached the detention center in Hyesan, she was searched, hosed down and beaten with an iron stick. But the next day, Kim's 50-yuan note reappeared, and she bribed her way out of the camp. A second journey to China a few months...
...Crimson Arts critic Mildred M. Yuan can be reached at yuan@fas.harvard.edu...
...Crimson Arts critic Mildred M. Yuan can be reached at yuan@fas.harvard.edu...
...their crimes. But the authorities occasionally like to make an example of the lowly looters, who are easier to catch. Last year Chinese courts meted out death penalties to at least four tomb raiders. "I know someone who was executed for looting a tomb," says Feng. "He made 580 yuan [$70]. Now, I hear the tricolor female statue he dug up was recently resold in New York for 150,000 yuan [$18,000]. No one is getting arrested in New York. How fair is that...