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...international interest worries some guardians of Asian culture. True, a handful of newly rich Chinese businessmen have invested in contemporary art, while members of the Indian diaspora snap up artwork with local themes to decorate their overseas homes. Nevertheless, it is foreigners - particularly European, American, Japanese and Singaporean collectors - who are driving the modern Asian art boom. The result has been a massive flight of contemporary art from the region. Exacerbating the trend is a dearth of quality modern-art museums in India, China and Vietnam. In August, the central Chinese city of Dujiangyan announced it was lavishing some...
...political style of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose Law and Justice Party (PIS) was defeated after just two years in office. The turnout was especially high in larger cities such as Krakow, Gdansk and the capital Warsaw (where it reached 70%) and in the huge 1.2 million strong Polish diaspora in Britain and Ireland; it was correspondingly low in rural areas of Poland, where the main strength of the PIS lies. The result was a resounding victory for the center-right Civic Platform (PO) party, which is considered friendlier both to business and to the European Union. According to preliminary...
...campaign, visiting both London and Dublin in the past month. Sikorski, an Oxford graduate who joined Tusk on the campaign trail, said the aim was to reach not just Poles working in the United Kingdom, but also their families back home. The strategy paid off: turnout among the diaspora was two to three times higher than it was two years ago, and votes went disproportionately against the PIS: preliminary results indicate that it received only 6% of the vote in London and Dublin, while the PO received...
...often allows writers to see their homes more clearly than those still living there. The real surprise is that there are still people who moan that books about India written by expatriates and émigrés are less important or less genuinely Indian. India is a nation of diaspora, and Indians are masters at adapting to new environments while remaining passionately attached to their own culture, no matter where they are. In an age of globalization, it seems perfectly natural that their books continue to be written from all corners of the earth...
Each summertime witnesses a diaspora of Harvard ambition. In New York’s stockbroking looms, Harvard expatriates watch the shuttle of industry fly back and forth for 90 hours a week and try not to get their fingers jammed. While others nap, we are stuffing our pockets and Palms with the telephone numbers and email addresses of the well-connected. We are discovering proteins; we are debating philosophy; we are disassembling poverty...