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...Shenyang, when an architecture school moved to the suburbs, Yu designed its campus to incorporate the rice paddies of the farms it had displaced. The rice became both a decorative element and a kind of literal food for thought?a reminder that landscaping needn't be expensive and that even agriculture can look modern. In Taizhou, Yu un-channeled a local river, removing cement barriers and letting it flood into a wetland through which he snaked bicycle paths, docks and terraces. In Zhongshan, Yu's shipyard park, which like the campus was honored by the American Society of Landscape Architects...
...drug prescriptions in China are for antibiotics, compared with roughly 30% in the West. "Resistance has risen dramatically in the past 10 years," says Tong, who is also a leading researcher on antibiotic resistance. He notes that a survey of 10 cities conducted three years ago revealed that in Shenyang, all pneumonia cases exhibited resistance to erythromycin...
...officials have presented "work reports" to the provincial legislature, or People's Congress, of each province. And for decades, the legislatures rubber-stamped their approval. Following a series of high-profile corruption scandals in 2001, however, some People's Congresses?such as the one in the northeastern city of Shenyang?refused to approve deceptively rosy reports. These votes of no-confidence were pretty mild; they did not, for example, lead to the removal of chastened officials. Even so, that year Beijing began insisting that provincial Party secretaries also become the top leaders of their local parliaments. Since...
...heart of the book is Rowan's coverage of the 1948 siege of Mukden, or Shenyang, the linchpin in the Communist conquest of Manchuria. Rowan and Birns are on hand as the city falls and, after a hairy escape off a bombarded air-strip, learn that the Nationalists are refusing to report the defeat. Rowan can cable his scoop back in time for the week's edition, but Birns' photographs can only travel by air. The two secure passage for the film on a 40-hour flight to San Francisco. LIFE holds the presses for 12 hours and sets...
...different kind of barrier had to be surmounted by last week's other premiering pianist, the Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang, 21, who made his recital bow at Carnegie Hall. Helped by his parents' heroic scrimping, Lang Lang overcame poverty in the city of Shenyang, which had only one dusty Steinway. His father gave up his job as a policeman to take the 8-year-old Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute...