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...“The cards are being dealt right now,” said Rong Hua, an investor in rival Xiaoming Bike. “There are 10 players now but only three will remain.”...
...Chen Xinyu’s Jingwei illustrated a folk tale of a reincarnated bird in vivid musical terms. Miao Rong’s Four Seasons of Suzhou River channelled Vivaldi in depicting his local surroundings....
...“There is definitely concern about Chinese football clubs spending ridiculous amounts of money buying foreign players,” said Chen Long, an economist at Gavekal Dragonomics, a Beijing-based research company...
...“I increasingly find industrialised materials a bit boring,” says Chen Haoru, associate professor of architecture at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou....
...Su Rong, vice-chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, is the most senior serving official to be probed since President Xi took power at the party’s 18th national congress in late...
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing...
...Big-name artists in the show include Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Xiaodong, Wang Xingwei, Li Songsong, Shen Shaomin, Rong Rong, Wang Qingsong, Miao Xiaochun, and there are key works by important women...
...Additional reporting by Gwen Chen in Beijing....
...Additional reporting by Chen Yuanni...
...During the Cultural Revolution Chen is sent from Beijing to Inner Mongolia, on whose lush pastures nomads have herded sheep and horses since long before Genghis Khan’s empire....
...Xu Xiu brought her 10- month-old son for testing even though he drank imported rice formula....
...More typical is the story of Chen Rong, a former mechanic from Shanghai who started a textile workshop in 1984 using his life savings of $250....
...Since it first appeared in 2004, Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem has sold as many as 20 million copies....
...Chen Rong, a young man with skeletal features, notes wearily “discussion groups” sometimes run until midnight. “We get some spare time, but we have lots of assignments.” The final impression is mixed....
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