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James L. Watson, Fairbank professor of Chinese society, wants his students in Anthropology 105 to think of the public eating canteens in Maoist China in terms of Harvard dining halls...
There were battles aplenty, though, to get the thing made. Annaud insisted that the film would not be hostile to China. But the Maoist bureaucrats must have noticed that he had his fingers crossed; they opposed his efforts to film in several nearby Himalayan nations. He set his location sites on India, but the government there dawdled endlessly. "I could see something was terribly wrong," he says. "They kept telling us we'd get permission, yet nothing was happening...
...Khmer Rouge forces started trickling into Phnom Penh, Hun Sen, who had defected from the Maoist group in the late 1970s, became worried, and skirmishes broke out between the rival armies. "I did not want to leave," Prince Ranariddh later told a French reporter, "but my generals came to me and said, 'Hun Sen is going to attack, sire.'" The prince fled to Paris two weeks ago, and Hun Sen's troops fanned out through Phnom Penh. By early last week, they had control of the city. Two of Ranariddh's top aides were arrested and executed; others have gone...
Daylight betrays the real Shenyang, a grimy industrial town northeast of Beijing that is sunk in despair. Once the shining star of Maoist industrial production, the city has lost its way in the changeover to private enterprise. Last night's revelers have been replaced by a handful of dejected men with nothing to do but smoke. More bicycles than cars circle the square as those still toiling in the antiquated state-owned factories that make products no one buys head for their redundant jobs. The reason so many people pack the square at night, says an only nominally employed factory...
...sublimely oblivious sheep, becomes part of the cultural debate, are we beginning to come to terms with those soulquakes. How will the new technology be regulated? What does the sudden ability to make genetic stencils of ourselves say about the concept of individuality? Do the ants and bees and Maoist Chinese have it right? Is a species simply an uberorganism, a collection of multicellular parts to be die-cast as needed? Or is there something about the individual that is lost when the mystical act of conceiving a person becomes standardized into a mere act of photocopying...