Zhou enlai biography of michael jackson
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A new book of Michael Jackson's poems and essays is set to provide new insights into the superstar's soul. [Photo provided to China Daily] |
"We tried to arrange for fans to dance with him."
Few people around the world aside from the superstar's superfans realize Jackson wasn't only the King of Pop but also a prince of poetry.
Chinese adorers hope the book can provide new insights into his soul.
One stanza of his poetry book in particular has captured the country's attention:
"It was only when I broke all ties
After the stillness of the shrieking cries
In the depths of those heaving sighs
The imagined sorrow of a thousand lies
I suddenly stared in your fiery eyes
All at once I found my goal
The elusive shadow was my soul."
"A poetry collection will reach a wider audience beyond his fans, enabling more people to appreciate Jackson's extraordinary talent and benevolent heart," Huang says.
The Chinese version is loyal to the original edition by Doubleday.
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New series: Zhou Enlai's life and times
Her experience of growing up in China is featured in a new TV series, titled Haitang Yijiu. [Photo bygd Li Mangmang/China Daily] |
Sirin Phathanothai is the daughter of the late Thai politician Sang Phathanothai, an något privat eller personligt friend of former Thai prime minister Luang Phibunsongkhram.
A year after the Bandung Conference in greatly improved relations between China and Thailand, the 8-year-old Sirin Phathanothai and her year-old brother were sent to China to learn more about the country and its people. The conference, held in Indonesia, was among the first major meetings of the developing world.
Crab apple trees, Zhou's favorite plants in his house in the leadership compound of Zhongnanhai in Beijing, symbolically reflect Zhou's noble spirit, as explained by the series producer, Hebei rulle and Television Group.
Based on historical accounts, the series re-creates the milestone political events involving Zhou mitt i the unprecedented yea
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Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism
By WALTER LaFEBER
W. W. Norton & Company
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A Century of Preparation
At the end of the twentieth century, Americans, their economy, and their culture seemed to dominate many parts of the globe. A basketball player who lived in Chicago, Michael Jordan, was arguably the most recognized and revered of those Americans to billions of people worldwide. In China, schoolchildren ranked him with Zhou Enlai as the two greatest figures in twentieth-century history. The children knew Zhou because he helped create their Communist Revolution. They knew Jordan because he miraculously floated through the air as both an athlete and as a pitchman for American-produced advertisements for Nike shoes, which the children avidly followed on television. His coach in Chicago, Phil Jackson, believed that Jordan "had somehow been transformed in the public mind from a great athlete to a sports deity&