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  • What's Left of the Three Gorges
    For all that the hand-wringing over China’s biggest masonry project since the Great Wall has been well-intended, it is also largely hypocritical posturing.


  • Qiu Jin - The Stuff of Heroes
    Be careful who you idolize, lest you come to be like them.


  • Northern Girls
    Predictably, Hong’s bosom was most prominent among all the hotel employees.


  • China's Ten Richest Cities
    Should You Live There? Heavens no. Not for any but noble reasons, at least.


  • China's Top Female Folk Singers
    In an age when everything is manufactured cheap, shiny and disposable, buying into the same kind of music is an act of surrender.


  • The Glasses
    Of what earthly use could a pair of near-sighted glasses be to a rickshaw man?


  • Tulous and True Beauty
    Built to last, and to serve, but not for beauty. Besides, if you’re trying to be beautiful, you’re better off straining to be natural.


  • James Bond 007 Skyfall: It's Set in Shanghai
    The new James Bond film Skyfall, starring Daniel Craig, is to be mainly set in Shanghai and Macau.


  • Beijing: Illusive Moments
    The Polish are to photography what the Filipinos are to music, disproportionately talented beyond all reason.


  • Chinese Warlord All-Stars
    In these prosperous Chinese times, you find erstwhile warlords running KTV parlors, or the odd rural police force.



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