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Yesterday I finished reading Science and also I finished the book Half the Shy by Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn. Its subtitle is Turning Oppression into Opportunity Worldwide. It is a very good book, and I recommend it for anyone interested in women. In the evening I watched a DVD of the Chinese movie Farewell my Concubine. It is the third time I have watched it and I am finally beginning to understand it and like it a little better. It uses Chinese opera and the process of training its performers from childhood, or even infancy, to be performers. It also uses opera as an allegory to present Chinese history of the 20th century.