Word: yun
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...trying to fight, and that in the process, Mongolian traditions are being lost - a sensitive subject in the semi-autonomous province where ethnic Mongolians were attacked during the Cultural Revolution. "Before, maybe herders raised goats; now they raise cattle. Or maybe they raised camel; now they're farming," says Yun Jin Feng, a professor at Inner Mongolia Agricultural University who has been studying local grasslands for 50 years. Scientists agree that Beijing's attention to the issue has helped the land, but working with herders to find a way to adapt to their changing environment will be crucial...
...seen as the mainland's nod toward the island's contemporary-arts scene (even if not to the nascent Taiwanese democracy in which the arts have thrived). Mainland Chinese are "beginning to realize what has happened in Taiwan's artistic environment over the last 40 years," says Hsu Po-yun, director-general of the International New Aspect Culture and Education Foundation, a Taiwan arts-promotion body. "They take it seriously...
...geomancy, or feng shui, the placement and shapes of natural features, buildings or even furniture can have positive or negative effects on qi, or life energy. And that applies to airports as much as anything else. "An airport is like the front door to a country," explains Lin Yun, a Chinese-born Grandmaster of Black Sect Tantric Buddhism who founded his own Yun Lin Temple in Berkeley, California. "The proper flow of qi, and designs that bring heaven and earth closer, can affect the nation's entire well-being and economy." (Airports are especially critical for Thailand, given that tourism...
...Chen Yun Chung is one of about 20 activists who have been camping out in shifts on the grubby tile floor of Queen's Pier since April 26, the day after the government closed the former ceremonial port for visiting British dignitaries. Chen, who is also a professor of urban planning, and members of this loose-knit coalition of non-profit and student groups are determined to stop the Hong Kong government tearing down, or relocating the historic structure to make way for a new highway and ongoing land reclamation project that is reshaping Hong Kong's waterfront. "People feel...
...even get away with playing to ignorant assumptions--if you're Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat. Chow signed on to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End to impersonate what he describes as "the Western audience's stereotype of the Chinese bad guy from the 17th century: long beard, long fingernails." But he didn't fret over the racial cartoonery. "I just let it flow. I'm a good...