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...Kunqu opera The Peony Pavilion is one of the greatest masterpieces of all time [Nov. 5]. What a curiously mistaken notion that "witnesses to such a grandiose relic should worry less about falling asleep and more about slipping into a coma." I was lucky enough to see Chen Shi-Zheng's full 19-hour production and Pai Hsien-Yung's nine-hour production of the opera. Each time, when the performance ended, I wanted it to start all over again. Such is the power, beauty and fascination of Kunqu opera, even to a Westerner. The consummate skill required...
...scraped to create a swishing sound.After the show, audience members were invited down to the stage to try their hand at playing a zither.The newest members of the ensemble, Yi-Chieh Lai and Ryuko Mizutani, explained the logistical differences of their instruments. For instance, Lai’s Chinese zheng has 21 steel strings; Mizutani’s Japanese koto has 13 silk strings.THREE ZEE PLUSIIIZ+ faces substantial challenges, not the least of which is their unique long-distance arrangement.The four members currently live separately in Berlin, Juneau, Taipei, and New York, respectively. Coordinating international tours and scheduling practice times...
...India] what was protecting women in the past was that they had many children," says Dr. Vinod Raina, an oncologist in Delhi. Other researchers go even further, venturing to put a number on that claim. "Reproductive changes explain about 30% to 40% of breast-cancer threat," says Dr. Wei Zheng, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville...
...CORRUPTION $850,000 Value of bribes authorities say were accepted by Zheng Xiaoyu, China's former food-and-drug agency chief, in exchange for approving drug licenses, a crime for which he was sentenced to death 170,000 Number of licenses that Beijing says it is reviewing, most of which were granted during Zheng's tenure. At least 115 deaths worldwide have been linked to tainted drugs from China since...
...before you start feeling too sorry for Zheng, it's worth remembering that even in a country inured to reports of official venality, his case is particularly egregious. Zheng almost singlehandedly supervised China's drug industry for over a decade before his retirement in 2005. Through astute bureaucratic maneuvering, he managed to have the SFDA removed from the supervision of the Ministry of Health in 2003, after which it became a powerful agency in its own right-leaving it effectively under his sole control. According to Xinhua, the Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People's Court said Zheng "sought benefits...