Mao Zedong loved to swim. In his youth, he advocated swimming as a way of strengthening the bodies of Chinese citizens, and one of his earliest poems celebrated the joys of beating a wake through the waves.
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Can Hollywood Afford to Make Films China Doesn’t Like?
In the 1997 film Seven Years in Tibet, the character of Austrian mountaineer Peter Aufschnaiter escapes an Indian POW camp and declares that he is heading for China to find work.
What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes
In Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth, the fortuneteller unfurls her skirts, hoists her bodice, strolls downstage and heckles the audience.
China’s Tainted-Milk Scandal Spreads
Before China’s dairy industry imploded in a swirl of tainted products, milk was a cash cow.
We Just Clicked
At the global headquarters of eHarmony in Pasadena, Calif., one blue wall is papered with testimonies of love: snapshots of couples who met on the Internet matchmaking site and subsequently got hitched.
Sex and the Single Chinese
Li Li has lost exact count of how many men she has bedded, but she knows the number is far above 100. “I don’t keep statistics,” says the former journalist, 27
Why Foreign Automakers Are Launching China-Only Designs
For a short time at the launch of GM’s new Baojun 630 sedan at the Shanghai Auto Show this week, the car was the side attraction. On a stage behind the car, two male models dressed in black performed a strange routine in which they drew car parts with their fingers in the air and then tossed the phantom pieces to one another
A Tale of 600 Cities
Chongqing.
Finding Niches in a New Land
“What country is this?” Many bemused Americans might ask that question as they go about their work and play. Whether shopping for vegetables among the hundreds of Korean-run greengroceries in Manhattan, or stopping for the night at one of the innumerable Indian-owned hotels in California, Americans are increasingly finding that entire businesses have acquired a foreign-born flavor.
Talking About Tiger Moms
Re “The Roar of the Tiger Mom” [Jan. 31]: As a young Chinese American who has been on the receiving end of this sort of discipline, I can say that the ways of the tiger mom are effective and laudable to an extent