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...wealth. So has a flurry of private arts promoters, keen to bring Taiwan artists to the mainland, where they are a big box-office draw. But deeper processes are at work, too. "Culture doesn't take sides, so the issue of arts exchange isn't so sensitive," says Lin Chao-hao, director of international cultural exchange for Taiwan's Council for Cultural Affairs. "It's also a good use of soft power to bring Taiwan and China closer together...
...Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao told students yesterday that Asian Americans should not exaggerate the effect of discrimination on their career prospects. At a meeting with leaders of Asian Pacific American student groups at the Charles Hotel, the Harvard Business School alum invoked her own biography while urging Asian Americans to embrace their cultural identity and its emphasis on achievement. “I never felt that I was at any particular disadvantage,” Chao said. President Bush appointed Chao labor secretary in 2001, making her the first Asian-American woman to serve in a President?...
...Many runners, including Chao, had to cross a muddy field to reach the Hopkinton start line...
...Jessica H. Chao ’07 ran the marathon for Harvard China Care, a student group that helps special-needs orphans in China. Surrounded by fellow Harvard China Care members near the finish line, Chao said she actually enjoyed running in the rain, adding, “it was comfortable...
...colonial hands. Though prerevolutionary Shanghai's most high-profile proponents of Art Deco were non-Chinese-including Hungarian architect Ladislaus Hudec and the French architecture firm of Leonard, Veysseyre and Kruze-Erh brings to light the forgotten Chinese architects of the period, such as Benjamin Chih Chen, Shen Chao and Chuin Tung, all graduates of the University of Pennsylvania in the 1920s. As founders of Allied Architects, the city's most famous Chinese-owned design firm, the trio was responsible for the imposing Chekiang First Commercial Bank, completed in 1948. Erh also highlights the delightful Chinese Aviation Association building, which...