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...opening moments of The Emperor and the Assassin are breathtaking for their bravado and finesse: Ying Zheng, the soon-to-be emperor of China, overtakes a fleeing enemy army on horseback, one soldier at a time. Leaping onto a fresher horse in mid-gallop and disposing of its hapless owner, he makes short work of the remaining riders and finally succeeds in cutting off the general at the fore, killing him with one swift stab in the chest. Shot with the camera speeding alongside the galloping horses, this first scene promises a magnificent cinematic experience, something both visually and emotionally...
...Emperor and the Assassin, set in the 3rd century B.C., relates the struggle of Ying Zheng (Li) to unify China and become its first emperor. His aims are honorable, his methods increasingly brutal; he might be the prototype for Lenin or Mao. Ying sends his lover Lady Zhao (Gong) to her Han homeland. Her mission is to find a professional killer (Zhang, in a potent turn) to fake an assassination attempt, whose "failure" will make Ying seem invincible to his adversaries. But Ying grows more ruthless, and the lady and the killer fall in love. Now they will...
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology Richard T. Born; Assistant Professor of Medicine Zheng W. Chen; Professor of Psychology Marc D. Hauser; Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Jae U. Jung; Associate Professor of Pathology Andrew A. Lackner; Instructor in Veterinary Medicine David E. Lee-Parritz; Associate Professor of Psychobiology Bertha K. Madras; Professors of Psychobiology William H. Morse and Roger D. Spealman; James T. Wortham, associate director of the New England Regional Primate Research Center; and Associate Professor of Medicine Frederick C. Wang...
Elaine C. Kwok '02, an incoming CSA social/cultural chair, then performed two pieces on the zheng, a traditional Chinese instrument with 21 steel strings...
...exfoliating identities, our names seem ever more beside the point. The handover of Hong Kong to the Chinese, for example, was perhaps most significant as the disappearance of a culture of zany hybrids--Sir Run Run Shaw, Philemon Choi and Freedom Leung--into one where there are 4,000 Zheng Yangs in a single city, and Wangs and Zhengs alone account for 160 million people, or more than live in Britain, France and Spain combined. The 20th anniversary of Star Wars is the 20th anniversary of celebrating heroes called R2D2 and C-3PO (who can make even HAL sound human...