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...Geling Yan, author of The Lost Daughter of Happiness, was already a critically acclaimed writer before moving to the U.S. in 1989. Her husband, linguist Lawrence A. Walker, is the English translator of her first book published in America. Yan wanted to switch to writing in English but found the transition difficult. "The youth of my generation," she says, "was wasted in reciting from Mao's Little Red Book. I learned English rather late. As for Chinese, I already had my own style." Just last year, after living in the U.S. for more than a decade, Yan began screenwriting...
Lead author LiJing Yan of Northwestern University enlisted more than 3,000 young adults--men and women, black and white--between 18 and 30 and tracked them for 15 years. She asked them to consider four traits: 1) a tendency to get upset when having to wait, 2) a tendency to eat too quickly, 3) a feeling of pressure as the end of the regular workday approaches and 4) a feeling of time pressure in general. The respondents were then asked to rate how well these traits described them, on a scale from "very well...
...province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because the local government was pocketing their salaries. Last month, a millet farmer surnamed Song traveled 36 hours from Yan'an county in Shaanxi province to Beijing to complain about having to pay $700 a year in local taxes when his annual income was only $800. Song took his petition to the special complaints office in Beijing reserved for Shaanxi residents, only to watch a yawning bureaucrat toss his papers...
While a recent U.S. study concluded that the odds of first cousins producing children with birth defects may have been overstated, the risk is still almost double that for unrelated couples. Denizens of the incest villages see ample evidence of this. Near the city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other: both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf, to parents who are first cousins. This spring in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned beside a road. Authorities tracked down...
...chances of birth defects. Reminders of the potential dangers fill neighborhoods just a few miles from Liu's village of Nanliang. In the roadside hamlet of Chenzhuangke, a first-cousin couple grieve for their young son who died of a rare blood disease. In the nearby city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other. Both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf-mute. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks they know why: their parents are first cousins. And last month in Yan'an county, a severely retarded...