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Te-Ping Chen on Navigating Generational Difference and Political Turmoil
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Review: The comforts of oppression, in a journalist s wildly inventive fiction Nathan Deuel © (Benjamin Carlson) Te-Ping Chen, right, author of the short story collection Land of Big Numbers, in Chengdu, China in 2011. (Benjamin Carlson)
Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tries a more ambitious gambit, assembling trash and spare parts from his neighbors into a working plane. He and his wife strap in tightly. The engine fires up. But the party boss is still unimpressed.
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Cao Cao, a villager in rural China, wants to join the Communist Party. Each year, he summits the hills at first light, harvesting the tastiest apricots to give the local party boss, who has rejected his application every year. So Cao Cao tries a more ambitious gambit, assembling trash and spare parts from his neighbors into a working plane. He and his wife strap in tightly. The engine fires up. But the party boss is still unimpressed.
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02/04/2021 08:35 AM EST
There s no evidence that President Joe Biden and Chinese ruler Xi Jinping have talked since Biden s inauguration, and that seems to be fine with Washington. Chinese diplomats are calling for a return to normalcy, which includes plenty of talking but no restraints on wolf warrior insults or conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, last week Biden s national security adviser articulated a China policy that mostly involves rebuilding American competitiveness and alliances implicitly without need for Beijing s involvement at all.
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