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“... of Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Laos over the last decade. In Scam, Ivan Franceschini, Ling Li and Mark Bo show that the industry depends on a second layer of deception. Most scammers have themselves been scammed. The tens of thousands of Chinese, Ethiopians, Ugandans, Filipinos, Pakistanis and others who carry out the grunt work have been ...”

“... dealings with the computing centre, so she had made an appointment to meet an acquaintance, Li. In the hall, under a curved roof dotted with lights to make it look like the night sky, Li pointed out technicians tapping away on their keyboards and a curved screen across one wall displaying the status of the city’s ...”

“... attention. Even the Central Committee and the State Council got involved. Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang gave speeches. Two days after the explosion, the State Council established the Serious Explosion Accident Investigation Team, led by the minister of the newly established Department of Emergency Management, whose mission is to guide ‘ministries in ...”

“... princes, Urging them to restore Obedience to Heaven’s law. When Confucius was lecturing Lord Ling, the Duke of Vei, Enforcing Heaven’s rules On the virtues of benevolence, The Duke allowed his eyes To leave his tutor and follow Some wild geese in the sky. At this indiscipline Confucius took offence And gathering up his school Went off in a huff to ...”

“... of civil servants but there is no requirement to sit the challenging civil service exam which Long Ling described so vividly in a recent issue of the LRB (13 January). The staff’s capacity to deal with an emergency had never previously been tested. They were soon overwhelmed by the flood of donations, and it was clear that they had no idea how to allocate ...”

“... Autograph Man is, as it were, a novel made entirely of those wisps. Its central character, Alex-Li Tandem, is a dreary blank, an empty centre entirely filled by his pop-culture devotions. Around him swirls a text incapable of ever stiffening into sobriety, a flailing, noisy hash of jokes, cool cultural references, pull-quotes, lists and roaring italics. It ...”

“... though Hill works hard to give them individuality and involve us in their lives. Party Secretary Li, the disillusioned Communist, hangs himself in protest at the fate of the factory. Old Zhu and his wife, also Party veterans, are convinced that the closure is a consequence of China’s wrong turn in opening up to the West. Their belief is challenged by the ...”

“... Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s is the longest, having overtaken Philip Short’s Mao (1999) and Li Zhisui’s The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1995). It represents an extraordinary research effort. The authors have been working on the project since at least 1986, to judge by the date of the earliest interview cited, which – and this is typical of the ...”

“... take them off. Locals began to take things into their own hands: a 21-year-old civil servant, Zexi Li, obtained a court injunction to stop the trucks from blasting their horns, and in Ottawa South residents stood in front of a platoon of supply trucks, demanding they remove their Canadian flags.But people kept pouring into Ottawa, especially on the ...”

“... and presented Christianity as complementary to the message of Confucius. Matteo Ricci became Li Ma-Tou. Earlier missionaries had referred to God as Deus, a word which sounded barbarous to Chinese ears and discouraged potential converts. Ricci, on the other hand, preferred to use traditional Chinese terms such as T’ien (‘Heaven’) to express his new ...”

“... cheeks. For the beaming new rulers of Hong Kong, China’s President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng, 1 July 1997 was set beside the sacred dates of 10 October 1911, when the first Chinese Republic was proclaimed, and 1 October 1949, when China’s new five-starred red flag was hoisted on Tiananmen, the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Beijing, and Chairman Mao ...”

“... his mother died and, most significantly, on the death of his secret police chief, the sinister Tai Li. Fenby adds an intriguing fourth. Chiang’s third marriage, to Soong Meiling, the notorious Madame Chiang, in 1927 may have been a political union – her sister, Ching-ling, was the widow of Dr Sun, whose mantle Chiang ...”