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China Gambles:
Shanghai Noon
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and again:
Shanghai Knights
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(the sequel)
| Quote: | | Set , like PokerPulse, in the wild west, is our all-time Jackie Chan favorite, especially the saloon scene with nasal cut-up Owen Wilson, who pulls off one of the cheesiest poker cheats in the history of film. Watch his hands at the table - all three of them. |
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In the Pond
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By Ha Jin
| Quote: | As to Bin's lodging for the night, Mr. Chai suggested that he stay at a small inn outside the compound, because some of the editors, living in the same building as the Chais, would infer that Peina was involved in the case if they saw Bin enter or come out of her apartment. Then they wouldn't believe what Bin said at the editorial department the next day.
Bin thought Mr. Chai's suggestion was reasonable. So after tea, when the twilight turned indigo, Mr. Chai took Bin to the inn through the back door of the compound. Walking along the sidewalk of a boulevard, under the fat sycamore leaves, he explained to Bin that he would have kept him company for another few hours, but two editors of Law and Democracy were coming to his home that night for a mah-jongg party at which they were going to discuss some publishing matters. (-- pgs. 148-149) |
Even the typical author interview with this guy by Dave Welch at Powell's.com is unpretentious and subtly amusing:
| Quote: | Dave: A lot has been made of the fact that you didn't learn to write in English until eleven or twelve years ago, and yet you've been very productive: two novels, two books of stories, and two books of poems.
Jin: I've been lucky in that what I've written has not been wasted. Every book I've written has gone to print. And, you know, I was driven by a fear, an instinct of survival. I was hired as a teaching writer; I had to publish enough to keep my job.
Dave: How did you end up at Emory University?
Jin: No other places would hire me! |
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Sumething for Nothing
Luck in America
Hardcover
By Jackson Lears
| Quote: | | ...Gambling is provoking ferocious controversy in other countries as well. In 1992 Chinese Communist officials in Shanghai unleashed a campaign against mah-jongg that included mass self-criticisms by 4300 party members who had sworn off gambling, the public burning of 400 mah-jongg sets, and the commissioning of 5000 antigambling squads. None of this stemmed the Chinese obsession with the game. The modern clonflict over gambling is part of a global war that has erupted periodically for several centuries -- the clash between revolutionary virtue and reactionary vice. That struggle surfaced whenever the righteous declare their intention to remake the licentious, to create a systematically disciplined "new man." As Michael Walzer once observed, there is a direct lineage from Cromwell to Lenin. And rectitudinous moderizers, whether Puritans or Communists, have never had much truck with gambling. (Footnote omitted) (-- pgs. 1-2 of Gambling for Grace) |
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Under the Red Flag
Short Stories
Hardcover
By Ha Jin
| Quote: | | Outside, a few snowflakes were swirling like duck down around the red lanterns hung at every gate. The smell of gunpowder and incense lingered in the air. Firecrackers exploded now and then, mingled with the music of a Beijing opera sent out my a loudspeaker. Inside the militia's office, the five men were a little bored, though they had plenty of corn liquor, roasted sunflower seeds, and candies with which to while away the time. They had been playing the poker game called Beat the Queen. Liu Daiheng and Mu Bing wanted to stop to play chess by themselves, but the others wouldn't let them. There was no fun if only three men drew the cards, and they wanted to crown two kings and beat two queens every time. (From Man to Be at p. 19) |
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Ocean of Words
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By Ha Jin
| Quote: | It began as a bet at the Spring Festival. After the feast, the soldiers of my company were playing chess and poker, chatting and cracking roasted peanuts and sunflower seeds. In the Second Platoon some men were talking about women and bragging of their own ability to resist female charms. Gradually their topic shifted to the Shanghai girls at the Youth Home in Garlic Village. How were the girls doing on the holiday eve? What a pity there was no man in their house. Who would dare to go have a look and ask if they miss their parents and siblings?
Someone said he would pay a Spring Festival call on the girls after eleven. Another boasted that he would take a bottle of wine to that house and have a cup with them. Emboldened by alcohol and the festive atmosphere, they indulged themselves in the big talk.
Then Kong Kai declared he dared to go and sleep on the same brick bed with the girls. This was too much. Everybody thought he just wagged his tongue, and they told him to draw a line somewhere if he wanted to talk sense. But a few men challenged him and even proposed a five-yuan bet. To their amazement, Kong swung his quilt roll on his back and set off for the Youth Home. (Opening paragraphs from Too Late at p. 5) |
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Diamond Grill
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By Fred Wah
| Quote: | Grampa Wah's marriage to Florence Trimble is a surprise to most of the other Chinamen in the cafes around southern Saskatchewan, but not to his wife back in China. Kwan Chung-keong comes to Canada in 1892, returns to his small village in Hoiping County in 1900, and stays just long enough to marry a girl from his village and father two daughters and a son. When he returns to Canada in 1904 he has to leave his family behind because the head tax has, in his absence, been raised to five hundred dollars (two years' Canadian wages.) He realizes he'll never be able to get his family over here so, against the grain for Chinamen, he marries a white woman (Scots-Irish from Trafalgar, Ontario), the cashier in his cafe. They have three boys and four girls and he never goes back to China again.
I don't know how Grampa Wah talks her into it (maybe he doesn't) but somehow Florence lets two of her children be sent off to China as recompense in some patriarchal deal her husband has with his Chinese wife. He rationalizes to her the Confucian idea that a tree may grow as tall as it likes but it's leaves will always return to the ground. Harumph, she thinks, but to no avail.Fred and his older sister Ethel are suddenly one day in July 1916 taken to the train station in Swift Current, their train and boat tickets and identities pinned to their coats in an envelope. My grandfather had intended to send number one son but when departure day arrives Uncle Buster goes into hiding. Grampa grabs the next male in line, four-year-old Fred, and, because he is so young, nine-year-old Ethel as well, to look after him. He has the word of the conductor that the children will be delivered safely to the boat in Vancouver and from there the connections all the way to Canton have been arranged. Fred, Kwan Foo-lee, and Ethel, Kwan An-wa, spend the next eighteen years, before returning to Canada, being raised by their Chinese step-mother alongside two half-sisters and a half-brother.
Yet, in the face of this patrimonial horse-trading it is the women who turn it around for my father and Aunty Ethel. Back in Canada my grandmother, a deeply religious lady, applies years of Salvation Army morality to her heathen husband to bring her children home. But he is a gambler and, despite his wife's sadness and Christian outrage, he keeps gambling away the money that she scrapes asise the kids' return passage. (From Yet languageless. Mouth always a gauze, words locked at pgs. 5-6). |
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From Omens and Lucky Charms:
China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795
Virtual Tour
Narrated by Dame Jessica Rawson
Goldman Sachs
| Quote: | China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, is the largest exhibition to be held in the UK dedicated to court art and will run from November 2005 to April 2006. Many of the works are unique and are rarely displayed.
The exhibition continues the Royal Academy's tradition of hosting outstanding exhibitions exploring world cultures, including: Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600 (2005); Aztecs (2002) and Africa: The Art of a Continent (1995). In China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795, 95% of exhibits are from the Palace Museum, Beijing, one of the largest museums in China. Of the 400 works in the exhibition, over 130 are paintings, an unprecedented number loaned by the Palace Museum.
China: The Three Emperors 1662-1795 is one of the most ambitious and far reaching exhibitions that Goldman Sachs has sponsored to date. The collection covers a wide scope of treasures, which will reveal the splendour of China's rich culture and which will serve to foster a deeper appreciation of its impact over the centuries and for generations to come. (From the Goldman Sachs website April 14/06) |
| Quote: | | Editor's Note: We were especially taken with the hand calculator capable (unlike us) of determining square roots, the ruyi sceptre in coral, a wish stick that would have been presented to the emperor on his birthday perhaps, and the complex instrument for celestial observation of 1746 used to measure omens to predict the success or failure of certain enterprises. The instrument may have been a gift of Jesuits, who brought much scientific knowledge and technology to China, whose experts successfully integrated these developments with their own considerable knowledge of the stars. |
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Smithsonian
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A Tale of Two Chinas
As the red-hot Chinese economy feeds the world's appetite for consumer goods, the one-time workers' republic is more than ever a nation of haves and have-nots.
By Stephen Glain
Beginning at p. 40
| Quote: | Since 1989, when pro-democracy demonstrators were massacred in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, prompting many foreign business men and women to vow they would never bet again on China, the country has attracted $600 billion in foreign investment. China now enjoys an estimated $202 billion trade surplus with the United States and owns more than $795 billion in foreign currency, most of which is invested in U.S. bonds, which help the deficit-saddled U.S. government finance itself. In the two decades before 2000, the Chinese economy quadrupled, and it is expected to become the world's largest by the end of this decade.
If China's colossal impact on world markets is now familiar, the effect of the red-hot economy at home, where it is fueling record levels of internal unrest, is less well known. Last year, China's public security minister Zhou Yongkang reported that almost four million Chinese took part in nearly 75,000 portest "incidents" in 2004. Zhou characterized the number as a "dramatic increase" over the previous year and noted a trend toward organized, rather than spontaneous, outbursts. In response, Beijing has reportedly formed a new police force equipped with helicopters and armored vehicles.
Meanwhile in the West, starry-eyed accounts of China's economic transformation often obscure Beijing's contempt for basic human rights, its one-party politiics, its rubber-stamp judiciary, its censored Internet and oppressed minorities, and a prison system so secretive that human rights groups can only guess at how many people may be languishing in it. (-- p. 42) |
| Quote: | ..."China is facing a huge number of social and economic challenges that are making expensive demands on the national budget," says Murray Scot Tanner, a China analyst at the Washington office of the Rand Corporation, a Santa Monica-based think tank. "If the economy does not grow at an [adequate] rate, the pressure will intensify. There is not yet a sufficient appreciation in this country that when it comes to China, a number of things could still go wrong. The stakes are very high."
To reaquaint myself with China, a country I had not covered for seven years, I visited two cities separated by geography, history and politics. In Wenzhou, I found China's bold future, where newly made fortunes and go-go consumerism have transformed lifestyles but at a cost to the environment. In Shenyang, I found a once-proud government stronghold now convulsed by free-market commerce, high unemployment, anxiety about the future and a certain longing for days past. Once the crucible of Maoism, Shenyang is by some accounts China's most politically unstable region. Both cities suggest that the global economy needs a stable China at least as much as China needs the global economy. (-- p. 44) |
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The White Countess
Merchant-Ivory eye candy
with actors who have mastered the
apparently now lost art of diction.
DVD
| Quote: | Shanghai, 1936, shortly before the Japanese invasion
Thomas: You know, sir, I was thinking of having a little flutter.
Todd Jackson: Oh, good! I'm glad to see a little recklessness entering your spirit, Thomas. This city is starting to work on you at last.
Thomas: I'm glad to see you so cheerful.
Todd: As a matter of fact, I was getting kind of anxious because you see I've come here to have a little flutter myself.
Thomas: Are you thinking of placing a large bet?
Todd: Substantial enough. Thank you, Jimmy. You know, Thomas, there comes a day when you say there are some things you may want to do in life and you'll never do them unless you take a risk. Hold everything that you have in your hand and just take a risk.
Thomas: Sir, are you intending to place a very large bet?
Todd: There are some in this city who would not consider it large, but it's just about everything I have.
Thomas: ... but I think that ---
Todd: No, we're not in Vermont, Thomas. Don't cluck around me like an old hen. |
Vanessa Redgrave, the mum, sister Lynn and one or the other of the ubiquitous acting Richardsons[/size], who show the acting world How Its Done. Ralph Fiennes and his smoldering stare do their best to keep up.
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Rush Hour 2
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| Quote: | | Wealthy bad guy Steven Reign (played by Alan King), who is laundering ill-gotten gains at his latest venture with the ferocious Triad gang, the Red Dragon casino in Vegas: Thank you, good evening. A thousand years ago, a small wealthy village in China hired a young dragon to guard the treasures of the cave. The people of the village started sneaking him extra food hoping to make him stronger. The dragon grew so big, he got stuck and the treasure was trapped behind him for all eternity. Ladies and gentlemen, I have found that treasure. It is here inside the greatest casino in the world. Welcome to the Red Dragon, where everyone is a winner. |
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The Atlantic
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Postcards from Tomorrow Square
By James Fallows
December, 2006
| Quote: | | ... A less attractive side of China's social bargain comes in public encounters. Life on the sidewalk or subway may have been what Thomas Hobbes had in mind with his "war of every man against every man." As technology, Shanghai's subway is marvelous; as sociology, it makes you despair. Every person getting on a subway understands that there will be more room if people inside can get off. Yet the more crowded the station, the more certain that there will be a line-of-scrimmage standoff as the people trying to surge in block those trying to escape. In a perverse way, I was relieved when I read that China's traffic-death rate per mile driven was nearly ten times as high as America's: I wasn't crazy in thinking that the streets were a reckless free-for-all. The writer Gwynne Dyer recently explained that such carnage is typical of cultures where virtually everyone behind the wheel is a "first-generation driver," raised with no exposure to traffic laws, defensive driving, or the damage cars can do. As more Chinese travel abroad as tourists, and China prepares to welcome more foreign travelers when the Olympics begin, the government has launched a "mind your manners" campaign urging people to stop "hawking" (noisily clearing their throats) and spitting on the street, to stop cutting to the front of lines, and to stop yelling at each other and into their mobile phones. Good luck! (-- pg. 109) |
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China Syndrome
The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic
Hardcover
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
| Quote: | CHAPTER 58
. April 14, 2004
. Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, China
. 3,750 infected, 369 dead
There were sixty-one new cases in Hong Kong on the eleventh and two more deaths, forty-nine newly infected on the twelfth, forty-two on the thirteenth, forty on the fourteenth, and forty-two the next day, with nine fatalities. That day, Ka-Kui Kwok, one of our production staffers won about two hundred dollars in the office pool by predicting that there would be forty-one newly infected - the office infection pool was structured like The Price Is Right: you had to be under the number; one over and you would be out of the money. I was always optimistic and tended to lowball the guess, chossing in the twenties. We never established an office pool on the number of fatalities. The WHO would later report, "the case fatality ratio of SARS ranges from 0% to 50% depending on the group affected, with an overall estimate of case fatality of 14% to 15%." (-- pg. 316) |
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Gobe and Mail
Still another dull corporate Toronto daily
China's market myths
The story of its rise is epic in proportion, but take a peek behind the curtain: Rumor and speculation still drive the country's investors
By Geoffrey York, Sinclair Stewart
and Boyd Erman
March 3/07
| Quote: | A few hundred small-time traders in ski jackets and baseball caps are crowded into a shabby hall in central Beijing, puffing on cigarettes and noisily kibitzing. The stock tickers and computer screens are modern, but the air is smoky, the paint is peeling, and the walls are lined with red Communist propaganda banners. In the corner, men are playing cards and Chinese chess, while a stream of housewives and elderly pensioners, some dressed in Mao suits, casually wander in from the street. They look innocent enough - certainly, it's difficult to believe this group helped to incite a global market panic this week, one that erased hundreds of billions of dollars worth of value from the world's stock exchange in a single day.
"It's even worse than a casino," complained Li Dqing, one of the investors at this trading hall, who has been investing in the Chinese market since 1996. "At least a casino has some rules. The Chinese stock market has no rules. I hate this market. It's controlled by the government. It can't be a fair game if the referee is also one of the players."
...To be fair, there are some investors who are mindful of the Asian financial crisis of 1998, and worry that sudden weakness in the Chinese market could prefigure a similar outcome. But that fear is misplaced given how small a role the Chinese stock market plays in the country, said economist Carl Weinberg of High Frequency Economics in Valhalla, N.Y. Of the 1.3 billion people in China, an overwhelming majority of those live on farms and rural areas and don't own shares.
"It's an enclave of people living in Shanghai and other cities who are affected by this, but that's not the real China," he said. "There is more free-floating anxiety than factual knowledge." It's also important to remember that the Chinese market remains dominated by lumbering state-owned companies - not the private sector enterprises that are the real engine of economic growth, or many of the global companies that dominate exports. ..."The market prices aren't set by any transparent process," he said. "The prices of the stocks are unrelated ot their value. Nobody really knows who owns the stocks. This is basically the same old casino that it always was."
Mr. Li recalls that only two or three years ago, economists were warning Chinese investors to stay away from the stock market because it resembled a casino. Today, nobody seems to listen. "Now look at these old men and women, struggling to pour into the market," he said, nodding at the people around him in the cramped trading hall. "Did they forget all those warnings? The stock market is like a lion that eats meat, and I believe that most of the newcomers and old people will " (Excerpt from p. B4) |
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From Omens and Lucky Charms:
Women of Mythology
Hardcover
By Kay Retzkoff
| Quote: | By nightfall, Mulan had reached the Yellow River. She camped there, beside the river. Even though she was excited at the prospect of her adventure, she was also filled with loneliness. She thought of her father and mother. She imagined them looking for her in the early morning. In her mind's eye, she could see them looking for her throught the farmstead. She could hear her mother calling her name. They would be perplexed by her absence. "What will they think when they find money missing from the ouse purse? Will they think me an unworthy daughter?" she asked herself. The thought brought a tear to her eye. She listened to the night noises - frogs croaking, leaves rustling in the breeze, the river's sighs, owls hooting. She saw a shooting star.
"A good omen," she thought...(From Mulan, the Woman General, at pg. 139) |
| Quote: | | Among the lavish illustratiions in the book is the reproduction of an "eighteenth-century painting showing aristocratic ladies playing Go," a game of skill and chance, at p. 143. |
Mulan
DVD
Disney's charming take on this
classic warrior myth!
Even the music is OK.
View a sample clip at YouTube.com
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From Pacific Rim/Asia at LegalAtPokerPulse:
Fortune
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Macau Now
As a new wave of over-the-top resorts hits the gambling kingdom, Clay Chandler explores the Vegas of Asia.
July 9/07
| Quote: | Hunter S. Thompson would have found much to fear and loathe in Macau, the former Portuguese colony rebranding itself as a gambling paradise. The good doctor (rest his soul) would been vexed to discover that Macau, surrounded by water and crowded immigration checkpoints, is best entered by ferry, not a gas-guzzling Caddy. No doubt he'd have been dismayed to learn that since Macau's 1999 return to Chinese rule, hallucinogenic substances aren't easily procured. But then again, when you can gaze at the Grand Lisboa casino, the newly built neon orb that throbs and pulses at the edge of the Macau peninsula like the Technicolor egg of some gargantuan radioactive monster, who really needs peyote?
Indeed Western gamblers looking for something more exotic than Reno or the Riviera are in for a bit of a shock when they arrive in this smog-shrouded enclave. In Macau's city center, the pastel facades of Senado Square and the ruins of St. Paul's cathedral evoke Macau's four centuries under Portuguese rule. But the frenzy of development elsewhere lends this Old World city the feeling of a frontier boomtown (albeit a relatively sober one: Macau's hard-core gamblers prefer tea to liquor). While Macau is now the world's gaming capital - last year revenue surged 22% to $7 billion, vaulting the city ahead of Vegas - there are just a few decent restaurants and not much in the way of shopping or shows to speak of (yet). ](emphasis added) Still, Macau is a fascinating place to watch some of the most intense gambling around, both at the baccarat tables and amid vast, dusty construction sites, where high-rolling developers are betting billions.
... There is, however, one party that wants to hedge its bets: recently authorities in neighboring Guangdong province sharply curtailed the number of new visas granted to tourists from the mainland, possibly under pressure from Chinese authorities to curb speculative excess. The move prompted Steve Wynn, who opened the swank Wynn Macau last year, to announce he was scaling back expansion plans.
Should the government crack down, soon foreigners will have another Asian Vegas to visit: Singapore's government has scrapped its long-standing ban on gambling and has struck deals for two multibillion-dollar hotel/casino developments .. (-- pgs. 105-108) |
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