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Uighurs must also conform culturally. Over the Lunar New Year, an important Chinese holiday not traditionally celebrated by Uighurs, cadres encouraged households to hang lanterns and sing “red songs,” ballads honoring the party’s revolutionary history. Byler said families could not ask whether the meat was halal and acceptable to Muslims when they had to make or eat dumplings for the festival.

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Also I have a Chinese wife and two kids so, that helps to keep me here too! But as a family you can live anywhere, but the opportunities and the environment… Shanghai is just so exciting, there are so many things happening. It’s a great place to be for young people who want to do something different.

Classes for non-native speakers of Mandarin cost $60 for the four weekly lessons. Su said donors have provided money for scholarships that can lower the cost. For information on scholarships, e-mail mandarinplayground@gmail.com.

It pulls no punches when describing the impoverished state of this part of coastal Guangdong province; before the radical change in the direction of economic policy change, there was no such place as Shekou. The area was a remote backwater of Baoan county and the Seaworld pedestrian zone, now dotted with upmarket shops and restaurants, was reclaimed from the sea.

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In Iron Man 3, when Tony Stark lost his armor, he had to take on a building full of bad guys without it. If he had the armor, there’d be nothing stopping him and it might look cool, but he wouldn’t be in danger. By taking away his armor, writer-director Shane Black added more excitement and conflict to the situation.

If they’d been introduced in The Avengers and then swiftly wiped out by a nuclear bomb, then the Skrulls would come and go from the MCU without making much of a mark at all. And this is one of the most iconic alien races in the Marvel Comics universe. In Captain Marvel, they’ll be able to threaten Earth in a more meaningful way. Plus, if one fan theory is to be believed, the Skrulls take over the world, Body Snatchers-style, at the end of Captain Marvel, so their threat might expand to future movies.

Even compared to their peers in the extra reading group, children who took piano lessons were significantly better at distinguishing between spoken words that differed by only one consonant, Gabrieli explains. (Both the piano and reading groups performed better than the control group at differentiating between vowels.) This, he says, suggests that piano lessons affect a crucial and complex element of language processing.

Iron Man 2 is one of the least critically acclaimed movies in the MCU. Reviewers called it overstuffed and they had good reason to. It puts too much emphasis on building the wider world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it’s chock full of villains. The script could’ve easily done with cutting one of those villains in particular: Whiplash.

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The court said in a statement online that Ma used his political power to aid the business operations of Guo Wengui, a real estate billionaire wanted by Chinese authorities. The New York-based Guo has published a slew of online videos in which he makes sensational allegations of corruption in the upper echelons of China’s ruling Communist Party.