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...Posts from Yi Wei, another financial blogger followed by hundreds of thousands of people, appear to have been scrubbed....
...But do not expect a charitable legacy to match those of Andrew Carnegie or the Rockefellers, at least not yet, said Shawn Shieh, an authority on Chinese civil society and philanthropy....
...Soloist Wu Wei is an accomplished and animated performer, suggesting with his almost dance-like movement a taming or charming of the sheng, and he celebrated his own Proms debut with a generous encore....
...For all the dedicated exertions of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under conductor Ilan Volkov and Wu Wei, the sheng soloist, neither of these seemed more than a loose collection of ideas that added up to little...
...“China needs to do more to keep this year’s inflation under the target ceiling,” Sheng Laiyun, spokesman for the statistics bureau, said on Thursday....
...A single-movement concerto for solo sheng (a Chinese mouth organ), the work yielded unearthly chants and wails from guest sololist Wu Wei, master of this exotic instrument....
...Chin first heard the sheng, a wind instrument capable of organ-like clarity and sustain, as a young girl, but had overlooked its potential until a chance encounter with the specialist Wu Wei....
...Fellow cast members Chang Sheng-Jay, Chen Wei-Yu and Li Yixuan found a common vocal idiom that was more theatrical than bel canto....
...“We proved that we can play baseball just as well as the Japanese,” says Su Cheng-sheng, now 97 and a pitcher from that Kano team who recalls the game as the most glorious moment of his life....
...“The Sichuan quake is almost like a copy of 9/21, only on a much larger scale,” says Liao Wei-shih, a local government official in Nantou, the county at the epicentre of the island’s quake....
...“Most of us found out on February 14,” said Mr Lu, who had worked for Hongsheng for 10 years. “The government will auction the assets. Costs were just too high.”...
...Shieh Jhy-wei, the new minister of information, says democracy in Taiwan is sometimes “demo-crazy” and proceeds to list all the difficulties that arise from having an intensely polarised polity....
...Zhang Wei works most weekday mornings in several houses around the city, but for the last few weeks she has been visiting a brokerage in the Hongkou district of Shanghai in the afternoons....
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