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...Consider that Cohen is asking for changes to a company where its own founder, Jack Ma, has made a very noticeable retreat from public view after criticising Chinese regulators....
...Additional reporting by Demetri Sevastopulo and James Politi in Washington...
...The Quest for Queen Mary , by James Pope-Hennessy, edited by Hugo Vickers, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£25, 336 pages Harry Mount is the author of ‘How England Made the English’ (Viking) Do you have a favourite...
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...I knew, for example, that James Joyce’s toilet jokes are very good and John Waters’ toilet jokes are very bad, for some reason....
...Roberts, MA, PhD, FSA, FRHistSProfessor Nicholas RoundProfessor Lene RubinsteinDr Alison SealeyProfessor Sonu ShamdasaniProfessor Anne SheppardProfessor Barry SmartLord Smith of CliftonProfessor Christopher...
...Martin Wolf Business Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built, by Duncan Clark, Ecco, RRP£18.99/$27.99 If Alibaba, the sprawling online retailer, is one of China’s most interesting companies, then Jack Ma...
...It results, according to Time Out, in “an ambience that can best be described as James Joyce meets Monsoon Wedding”....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...From here, we moved on to James Joyce’s Ulysses, which relocates The Odyssey to Dublin in 1904. Then things went off the rails....
...“I wanted to know everything – where she [the V&A curator] worked, the colour of bricks, everything in the street.”...
...David Beckham’s wardrobe has been scrutinised and discussed as much as his performance on the pitch while goalkeeper David James has modelled for Armani....
...Without Scott, Victor Hugo would never have written Les Misérables (1862); Alessandro Manzoni I Promessi Sposi (1827); Tolstoy War and Peace....
...There I would sit with my fellow MA students discussing the antics and outputs of Henry (James), Walt (Whitman), Frank (O’Hara) and John (Berryman) as though they were our genius uncles....
...The third designer in the V&A’s exhibit, Ma Ke, is heavily influenced by traditional Chinese craft and minority cultures....
...Q: Your thoughts please on positioning v branding and perhaps the former requiring much more attention and effort?...
...The graphic novelist Alan Moore took his name off V for Vendetta, and who can blame him?...
...Michael V....
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