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Sargent Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) has come to Summerisle from the Scottish mainland in order to find a young girl who has been reported missing by a mysterious note. As he investigates, the strongly Christian Howie is shocked to discover the island’s strange pagan rituals. There are several powerful moments, including some nude frolicking by Britt Ekland in an attempt to entrap the virtuous Howie, a naked school prayer session and any of a clutch of scenes involving the hypnotizing Lord Summerisle in the role of Lee’s career...
...Kong, there has been plenty of trouble. He is currently serving a jail sentence, albeit significantly reduced to two years in return for his cooperation with the authorities. As for the Hong Kong gallery that bought the figurines from Wang: it was allowed to return them quietly to the mainland in exchange for keeping its identity secret...
...terms of the relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington. Where Chiang had once represented the authoritarian strongman presiding over a booming capitalist economy offering low-cost manufactured goods to the U.S. market and raising the living standards of its people, today that role has been usurped on the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. The tension across the Taiwan Strait remains high, but its terms have changed. Today, Beijing's claim to Taiwan is an expression of the nationalist mantle adopted by a Communist Party serving as the authoritarian steward of a booming capitalist economy, while the Taiwanese electorate - having...
...Perhaps the biggest shift in China's foreign policy lies in the way it handles Taiwan, which it considers a renegade province that must ultimately be reunited with the mainland. In 1996, when Taiwan's first direct presidential elections aroused concern on the mainland that democracy would draw the island further away from unification, Beijing reacted angrily by lobbing missiles over the Taiwan Strait. Four years later, the pro-independence background of Taiwan's current President Chen Shui-bian elicited a televised harangue by former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on the eve of the presidential polls. But during this year...
...Generalissimo who ruled China for two decades, as an enemy of the people, heading a feudal, despotic regime that was swept away by the tide of historical inevitability in the communist victory of 1949. But now, 28 years after his death in Taiwan, the administration he headed on the mainland seems strangely familiar and relevant to the future of the world's most populous nation...