Stakes high as Las Vegas welcomes in the new year
Financial Times February 9, 2005 US gaming groups with an eye on the East prepare for the annual Chinese pilgrimage A 10-foot tall animatronic rooster sits inside the glass-domed conservatory […]
Category Archives: China
Passion Flower
Boston Globe Magazine October 17, 2004 Years after meeting in Hong Kong, the author finds that Shiu-Ying Hu, one of the first Chinese women to earn a PhD from Harvard […]
Bilingual US schoolchildren spread the word
Financial Times May 18 2004 The footsoldiers of globalisation are getting younger as American children take up Chinese, reports Amy Yee. It’s a typical afternoon for thexiao pengyou – or […]
Ancient Art From Sichuan Twists Chinese History
The Asian Wall Street Journal May10, 2002 A summer’s day began like any other day for a group of Chinese brickworkers in the village of Sanxingdui, in Sichuan province. They […]
Scribbles From the Underground
The Asian Wall Street Journal 8 February 2002 During the dark years of China’s Cultural Revolution, the writer-artist Mu Xin was imprisoned in an abandoned air-raid shelter in Shanghai. His […]
Modern Chinese Painting Flies Like a Heavenly Horse
The Asian Wall Street Journal June 15, 2001 During the early 20th century, in a relatively short period of time, China’s longstanding imperial traditions crumbled and gave way to the […]
China on Its Toes – Dance and Allegory at Guangdong Modern
Wall Street Journal Asia May 25, 2001 Four dancers from the Guangdong Modern Dance Company are framed in squares of light on the floor of a dark stage. In silence, they pivot on their […]
Focused on China’s Fringe
The Asian Wall Street Journal January 21 2000 Atmospheric intimacy — often viscerally intense — is the hallmark of the Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan. This time, he’s found it in […]
Turning Loss into Beauty: The Tragedies of Geling Yan
The Asian Wall Street Journal June 25 1999 Geling Yan writes about loss. Like so many others from her generation, the Chinese novelist and screenwriter lost her innocence and much […]
Cinema: Going Beyond Gore, Zhou Chases the `Texture of Life’
Asian Wall Street Journal March 5, 1999 Clad entirely in black, bearded and sporting a leather jacket, Zhou Xiaowen certainly looks the part of China’s latest “renegade” filmmaker. About what […]
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