Word: xinjiang
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...Tsui's camera lingers on slashed throats and chopped hands twitching in the dirt. Even the good guys use massive medieval swords with serrated edges, weapons that seem better suited to Conan the Barbarian than elegant martial-arts masters. The brutality is underscored by the harsh desert scenery of Xinjiang. Tsui takes out the arts and leaves the martial?but it's arresting to watch...
While such officials as Hu and Li will set China's policies in future years, young professionals like Tang Yigai, 37, will be charged with making them work. Tang, a husky man who speaks rapidly, is vice director of economic research for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. He was a Red Guard during the Cultural Revolution. "People did things they now regret," he recalls. "It was not a good time...
Turning to books for relief following the 1960s upheaval, Tang was fascinated by the work of economists, from Karl Marx to Milton Friedman. After graduating in mathematics from Xinjiang University in 1976, Tang became the first student in China since the Cultural Revolution to receive a master's degree in econometrics. He passed up a rare chance to study abroad and decided to take a government job. Says he: "I come from a very poor part of China, and I wanted to help my country develop...
RELEASED. REBIYA KADEER, 58, prominent Muslim political prisoner; by the Chinese government; in Beijing. Kadeer, a member of the predominantly Muslim Uighur ethnic group in northwest China's Xinjiang province, was arrested in August 1999 and sentenced to eight years in prison for "providing secret information to foreigners." Her release came in advance of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Beijing. Kadeer immediately flew to the U.S. and, upon arrival in Washington, D.C., told a cheering crowd, "I will keep on fighting for my people until my last breath...
...permanent residency, after urging from the Chinese government; in Melbourne. Hu, who has been living with her adopted Japanese daughter, was caught in diplomatic limbo when her recent application to stay was refused, while no airline was willing to transport the centenarian back to her home in China's Xinjiang province. Hu praised Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone for her compassion, saying, "She has a good heart. She will live very long...