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...Sheng, who runs a luggage parts-manufacturing company in China's eastern Zhejiang province, is an unlikely looking banker. He doesn't wear three-piece suits, and his place of business rings with the shouts and banter of hundreds of workers who screw steel wheels to the bottom of satchels bound for department stores in South Korea. But Ye is a moneylender all the same. To keep his company in cash, he has taken in $10,000 in deposits from family and friends. He pays them interest, uses their money as working capital, and occasionally he extends loans to other...
...rest of the developing world. A truly global force, Ma's recent projects include a collaboration with Brazilian musicians and, on June 15, a performance in Singapore of a new cello concerto by Chinese composer Chen Yi, along with a quadruple concerto by acclaimed Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng. Following Ma's lead, young Asian players are nowadays edging out their Western counterparts at the best conservatories in Europe and America; and as they mature, Asian instrumentalists are increasingly getting star billing as soloists at top concert halls...
...there's more to musicmaking than just learning the notes. How did Asians discover their love for the glorious noise written by European composers hundreds of years ago? Composer Bright Sheng, a Shanghai native who was exiled to the Tibetan Highlands during the Cultural Revolution and has lived in the U.S. since 1982, finds the answer in history...
...arms to Western culture for a long time, largely because of the powerful economic influence," he explains. "In the Tang dynasty, from A.D. 600 to 900, when the Silk Road was at its peak, China had an open-door policy and foreigners could go there to make a living." Sheng sees a parallel nexus between trade and culture in the contemporary scene: "Asia's interest in Western culture today arises directly from the terrific boom in economic prosperity. Let's face it, culture and the arts always have a close tie to the economy...
...theater is showing the landmark 1966 kung fu film Dragon Inn to a scattered handful of ghostlike characters, including a young Japanese tourist (Mitamura Kiyonobu) apparently cruising for gay men. The crippled, young ticket taker (Chen Shiang-chyi) stalks the venue in search of the mysterious projectionist (Lee Kang-sheng)?perhaps she's in love with him, or maybe he just forgot to return her Jay Chou CD. Narrative details aren't Tsai's concern; he wants to make the audience work for their cinematic enrichment. Tsai trusts in his images?Chen limping down a lonely corridor, the cavernous theater...