New Core = New Coverage
Monday, May 9, 2005 at 5:36PM ■"Adventures in Opera: A 'Ring' in the Rain Forest," by Larry Rohter, New York Times, 9 May 2005, p. A1.
■"Fei Xiaotong, 94, a Pioneer In Chinese Anthropology," obituary by Wolfgang Saxon, New York Times, 9 May 2005, p. A21.
Story one is cool example # 2 of a New Core state getting the artistic attention it deserves as an audience. Broadway musicals in Shanghai? Bring on Wagner's "Ring" to the Amazon. I say, let the Fat Lady sing. Just keep her hydrated.
Second story is, to me, just a neat little example of how China joins our world: an obit of a guy we'd never even know about if China had remained locked away from the world in a never-ending series of Cultural Revolutions and "Dear Leaders" to worship like poor North Korea (quick, name a North Korean other than Kim or his old man or-maybe, if you're really good-one of his idiot sons). This guy was known in America before Communist China even came into being in 1949, and managed to outlive that nightmare to see China rejoin the world-and have his amazing life story recounted in the pages of the New York Times.
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