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...year-old Zhang Jun is changing all that. The newly promoted deputy director of the Shanghai Kunqu Opera Theatre, Zhang believes the art form can be salvaged to appeal to audiences in the era of roaming broadband and speed punk. During the past two years, he and his team have compressed epic Kunqu scripts until they play about as long as the average movie, and introduced other innovations. The changes are finally starting to draw respectable audiences of curious Shanghainese. At last summer's three-week run of Palace of Eternal Youth, a Tang dynasty love tragedy, two thirds...
...project last Friday night, LVMH did succeed in floodlighting a fashion runway atop the wall, lighting up the stairway to the beacon towers at Juyongguan Pass, as well as the surrounding mountain tops and, to the surprise of some Chinese guests in an audience which included movie star Ziyi Zhang and the granddaughter of reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, branding the hillsides with projections of Fendi's double F logo. Before the first ever fashion show to be held on the structure, Arnault and his wife, Hélène stopped to snap their own photos of the views...
...tiny blisters or bumps on the skin, though symptoms may not appear for 4 to 6 weeks after exposure. “At first I was really worried about getting it. I didn’t want to get some kind of disease,” said Zhen Zhang ’11, a Pennypacker resident. As a precaution, students were told to wash bedding, towels, clothes, and shoes worn or used in the past seven days. Students were also instructed to tie any clothing or bedding that could not be washed in a plastic bag for 14 days...
...income. But those trends were reversed in the 1990s as the government financed urban development at the expense of rural enterprises, Huang said. The changes occurred in cities like Shanghai, which he called the “apex of economic inefficiency, waste, and government intervention.” Fan Zhang ’09, a board member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association, which sponsored the event, described the Chinese economy as a “hot topic” in economics. “People who are [economics] students here can go to China and have practical effects...
...their defense, the Weinsteins can point to considerable success with Asian productions. In fact, if you name an Asian hit in the West, the brothers are probably responsible in some way. Chungking Express, Farewell My Concubine, and half of the eight highest-grossing American showings of Asian pics, including Zhang Yimou's Hero, were released under their auspices. Harvey Weinstein also claims a genuine penchant for Asian films, picked up, he says, through his friendship with kung fu-movie fan Quentin Tarantino...