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...meantime, some best-selling Asian artists are content to poke fun at their foreign patrons. Shanghai artist Zhou Tiehai, who has exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York City and the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, gained international attention in the 1990s with his playful renditions of cigarette icon Joe Camel dressed as the Mona Lisa and other Western art figures. At the 1999 Venice Biennale, he exhibited fake magazine covers adorned with his face - a cheeky commentary on the overseas fame so many Asian artists crave. Now he produces soft-focus landscapes and chinoiserie portraits. Yet even though...
Writing history is a dicey enterprise for Chinese scholars, and never more so than when the subject is a Communist Party figure like Zhou Enlai - China's Premier from the founding of the People's Republic until his death in 1976, and still regarded by the vast majority of Chinese as a saint. "Ordinary people thought he was a good man," says Gao Wenqian, once Zhou's government-appointed biographer and more recently the author of the revisionist (and unofficial) Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, now available in a translation by Peter Rand and Lawrence R. Sullivan...
...understands,” said HUPD officer Jack J. O’Kane. “As long as they aren’t doing anything wrong, they can have all the fun they want.” —Maxwell L. Child, Clifford M. Marks, and Kevin Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...Yoon and Cambridge City Councillor Brian Murphy delivered resolutions passed by their councils on the Little Rock Nine. “We stand on your shoulders,” Yoon said. “And the view is good.” —Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Kevin Zhou can be reached at kzhou@fas.harvard.edu...