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...last representatives of China's prerevolutionary glamour sits in a ramshackle courtyard, somewhere in the maze of Beijing's fast-vanishing hutongs, or alleyways. For 60 years, master dressmaker Cao Senlin, tel: (86-10) 6526 4515, has been producing the slinky silk dresses known as cheongsam. And although you could get these at one of the modern tailors that have sprung up in the capital, you would be missing out on a historic opportunity if you were to bypass the 78-year-old's tiny, 150-square-foot atelier...
...embattled land. For five months Madame Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden; traveling to San Francisco; talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously, but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed...
...Chiang, as she was best known in the West, seemed to be everywhere: speaking at Madison Square Garden, traveling to San Francisco, talking on the radio. In an address to Congress, she was what one commentator called "the personification of free China." Slim and graceful, clad in a black cheongsam, she wooed, wowed and chastised her spellbound listeners with a blend of compliments, barbs and pungent assertions. "We in China are convinced that it is the better half of wisdom not to accept failure ignominiously but to risk it gloriously," she said. After she sat down, a Congressman confessed...
...with stones, ivory and wood. But when Marco Polo traveled to the Middle Kingdom, he brought back to Italy a wealth of information and discoveries. If he were to go to China today, he would probably return with no more than a Beijing opera mask and a badly stitched cheongsam...
...heels and red cheongsam were designed by Versace, the $1.3 million diamonds were Harry Winston loaners, but down deep?the underwear, incidentally, was everyday Victoria's Secret?CoCo Lee is a plain-talking, down-to-earth, family-loving pop star whose career has skyrocketed in a remarkably short time. A Hong Kong-California hybrid, CoCo got her big break in Taiwan with a karaoke hit in 1994, which she quickly parlayed into mass fame on the Chinese mainland. Disney hired her to do the Chinese voice-over for the movie Mulan (Celine Dion's big break, remember, was voicing Beauty...