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...greater: bring beauty back to his homeland. The painter turned style entrepreneur, who died on April 10 at 59, began his mission rather unpromisingly: after graduating from Shanghai's premier art institute in 1965, he spent a decade monotonously painting propaganda art and portraits of Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution. But after migrating to the U.S. in 1982, Chen found his hyper-realist paintings of pastoral scenes and flute-playing maidens a hit with foreign collectors, who snapped up the oils for as much as a quarter of a million dollars each-making Chen the highest-earning mainland-born...
...point of numbness. In case you didn't notice, Big Breasts' women are strong, its men?and the society they run?are, like Jintong, "useless, worse than useless." That would be a subversive message in China if it weren't for a familiar proverb favored by Mao Zedong: "Women hold up half the sky." With Mo Yan and his sprawling, energetic novel pleading their case, they may finally get some credit...
...Judging from the achievements of your work, I should say that 70% of what you have done has been pretty good." BO XILAI, China's Commerce Minister, on his counterpart, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans. The Communist Party gave the same approval rating to Mao Zedong...
When the pressure of running the world's biggest television maker weighs heavily on Li Dongsheng's shoulders, he reflects on his years in the muck. During China's Cultural Revolution, when Chairman Mao Zedong ordered high school graduates to learn from the peasantry, Li spent three years raising fish and rice. Today his company, TCL, based not far from the old commune in Guangdong province, is looking far beyond the paddies. The goal: to transform TCL into a worldwide household name. "When I hit problems along the way," says Li, 47, "I think, This is nothing like what...
...again-off-again economic reforms may be sparking some of the speculation regarding Kim's status. North Korea can't condemn capitalism and still allow increasingly open markets without overhauling its ideology and propaganda. China's economic reforms, begun 25 years ago, coincided with the demise of Mao Zedong's cult of personality. It makes sense that Pyongyang, too, will begin a process of change by lowering Kim's profile. Professor Ruediger Frank, a North Korea specialist at the University of Vienna, visited Pyongyang in September and for the first time noticed that portraits of North Korean leaders had been...