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...impact of Chinese artists on the Australian art scene is already being felt from within. Sydney gallery director Gene Sherman describes this world as "a very delicate ecosystem, both in terms of the practitioners, and also in terms of people like us." While artists like Guan Wei, Ah Xian, and Liu Xiao Xian, all of whom moved to Australia following the Tiananmen Square killings 16 years ago, are hardly household names, they are for the dealers, curators and gallery directors who make the art world go round. Their works are being quietly amassed by the collections that count, and they...
...True, as measured by recent public expressions of dissent, their strategy?aided, of course, by the benefits of a vibrant economy?has so far seemed to come liability-free. But one wonders how long such avoidance will serve China. As Guan Zi, a text written around the 4th century B.C. on statecraft noted: "Those who would question the present should investigate the past. Those who do not understand what is to come should look at what has gone before." Even Deng Xiaoping once declared: "Our principle is that every wrong should be righted...
...proximity to human living quarters and sold live at unhygienic wet markets. In neighboring countries Thailand and Vietnam, such conditions led to the stubborn spread of bird flu, first among poultry, then in a handful of human beings. So far, Cambodia hasn't reported any major outbreaks, but Dr. Guan Yi, an avian-flu expert at the University of Hong Kong, fears it may already be entrenched there. "This virus is not just endemic in Vietnam and Thailand," he says. "In countries like Cambodia they don't have a systematic surveillance program, so we don't know...
...born Guan Moye?his pen name means "Don't Speak"?isn't afraid to speak his mind, though sometimes to the point of numbness. In case you didn't notice, Big Breasts' women are strong, its men?and the society they run?are, like Jintong, "useless, worse than useless." That would be a subversive message in China if it weren't for a familiar proverb favored by Mao Zedong: "Women hold up half the sky." With Mo Yan and his sprawling, energetic novel pleading their case, they may finally get some credit...
...course, some people were disappointed, and not only Premier League fans. "The government should leave it to the individual to decide whether to bet or not," says Lim Guan Eng, secretary-general of the opposition Democratic Action Party. Malaysia's media sent out a mixed message on the issue: Malay-language newspapers, principally read by Muslims, splashed the cancellation across their front pages, while coverage was subdued-or absent-in the urban English- and Chinese-language press, some of whose readers aren't averse to the occasional bet on a soccer match...