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...Taiwanese domestic comedies of Ang Lee (The Wedding Banquet, Eat Drink Man Woman) and impressed by the daunting meditations of Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-Hsien (Good Men Good Women). And they get their giddy thrills from the wild Hong Kong action films featuring Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat, who are two of the world's top movie stars. Chinese pictures cannily appeal to audiences of every brow--high, middle...
...PROTOCOL OF DEATH IN COMMUNIST regimes has traditionally been as elaborate as those of the empires that preceded them. So when Chen Yun died at 89 last Monday, the citizens of Beijing braced themselves for the usual run of lowered flags, martial music, and long paeans to his revolutionary contributions. After all, Chen ranked second only to Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping in China's pantheon of post-Mao leaders, and the two were often viewed as fierce rivals...
...then failing to pursue an anticorruption drive could make the country more difficult to govern, for Jiang or anyone else. The regime certainly seems nervous these days. Police line Beijing's main avenues, on the lookout for any potential unrest. One theory about the low-key treatment of Chen Yun's death is that it may be a trial run for the day Deng dies. Says a Chinese analyst: "If they manage to avoid a funeral for Chen, they might be able to do the same for Deng. More than anything, the government is afraid of gatherings, even for funerals...
...effort to increase awareness of Tantric Buddhism, the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association (CSA) sponsored a speech by San Francisco lecturer Thomas Lin-Yun on "Fengshui, Ch'i, and Life" last night...
...opening melody, but his tone became a little strident, undermining the carefree quality of the movement in its recapitulation. He fortunately saved some of the stridence for the bold, personal statements of the second movement's Largo ma non troppo. In the cantabile section of the movement, violist Hsin'Yun Hwang offered solo playing of utmost sincerity with none of dryness that pervades chamber music today...