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Many migrant workers also use black-market currency traders. Known as hawala in the Middle East, hundi in India and fei chien ("flying money") in China, these unlicensed remittance networks were targeted by the U.S. after 9/11, because some had been used by al-Qaeda and other terrorist networks. The following month the U.S.A. Patriot Act made participating in these networks a felony, and the law has been used more than 20 times against alleged violators...
...with The Blue Kite, Chen with Farewell My Concubine. Both films won festival prizes abroad; both were banned at home, and Tian was forbidden to make movies for seven years. His comeback film, Springtime in a Small Town, is a remake of a 1948 film by the Shanghai director Fei Mu. A young married couple lives in a kind of genteel torpor, broken by the arrival of the wife's ex-lover. More a still life than a drama, Tian's gorgeous portrait of anxiety and anticipation gains power in part from its time and place (China a year before...
...specters in A Chinese Ghost Story and Rouge, and he would later earn international acclaim in Chen Kaige's Concubine?still his fullest, grandest performance. But it was Wong Kar-wai who illuminated the inner Leslie on the big screen. Days of Being Wild made him a '60s Ah Fei (shiftless youth) whose mistreating of women is his payback to the mother who deserted him; it won Cheung a Hong Kong Film Award for best actor. In Ashes of Time, cast as a martial-arts scoundrel, he ably anchored a film of top Chinese stars and rapturous visual splendor...
...Americans who once thought they could count on the enlightenment of McDonald's-eating Chinese youth may find this faith misplaced. Youngsters under the age of 25 are those most eager for China to show its muscle. "We will learn all the things you Americans teach us," says Qian Fei, a 22-year-old sitting at a Beijing sports bar and watching Chinese basketballer Wang Zhizhi's debut in the NBA. "And then we will use what we learned to beat...
...Fei expressed approval that Collins took stands about the impact of the genome outside of science...