News Links - 12/11/07

[dleedlee]

"The Children of Huangshi" Recalls Nanjing Massacre
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/1461@303587.htm

Zhang Ziyi Promotes Care for Children

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/1261@303504.htm

Lost in Beijing: Forbidden fruit
http://www.china.org.cn/english/enterta ... 235252.htm

John Rabe" Cast Meets with Media
Zhang Jingchu

http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/1261@303501.htm

A Promise (China) review
http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5130/1/

Warlords
Director Peter Chan Ho Sun talks about his foray into his first-ever war movie
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies
Andy Lau on Warlords
“All the promotional material features my real voice, although most of what you hear in the movie is a voiceover by someone whose voice closely resembles mine.
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies
Jet Li on Warlords
http://www.star-ecentral.com/news/story ... sec=movies

S. Korean Stars Help Orphans Find New Families
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/176@303627.htm

Ada Choi announces marriage to Zhang Jin
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/1261@303510.htm

Chinese Bigwigs Are Quick to Reach For the Hair Color
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB ... in_tff_top

[ewaffle]

S. Korean Stars Help Orphans Find New Families
http://english.cri.cn/3086/2007/12/11/176@303627.htm

Knowing nothing about this effort other than what I have read in this brief article I can only hope such efforts find success. There are a number of reasons for the large number of healthy Korean babies available for adoption, none of which I am qualified to comment upon, but the example of Toby Dawson (if that is a good example) is untypical.

I am very close to a person who was adopted from a Korean orphanage by an American family about forty years ago. Unlike the case with many if not most of the adoptions currently arranged, she is unaware of many of the things that most, at least in the U. S., take for granted--the medical history of her parents, for example.

In her situation she wound up with a family in the rural midwest, in a very white part of a very white state. Having been through the area a number of times I can attest that the people there are among the biggest and whitest anywhere. Adapting to her surroundings she became as "un-Korean" as one could be, saying now that she doesn't "speak Korean, cook Korean or dream in Korean". She has never been to the land of her birth and never plans to go.

None of which, of course, has any necessary significance outside of her particular situation although such stories sometimes resonate strongly with me.

So I hope that the efforts described in this story will help find loving Korean families for Korean infants who don't have them.

[dleedlee]

Very sad story:


A Dutch diplomat who caused an uproar when he returned an adopted South Korean girl after seven years said he did so on medical advice because she had such severe problems fitting into the family...
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_deta ... 71214&fc=8

[Brian Thibodeau]

Adapting to her surroundings she became as "un-Korean" as one could be, saying now that she doesn't "speak Korean, cook Korean or dream in Korean". She has never been to the land of her birth and never plans to go.

Perhaps this documentary might be of semi-related interest?
http://festival.asianamericanmedia.org/ ... tail/?i=72
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117933 ... id=31&cs=1