The demand for cars is so high that licences are auctioned for as much as 100,000 yuan ($12,000).At the annual meeting of China's parliament in March, the vice-chairman, Tian Jiyun, urged cities still dominated by state industry to study Wenzhou.
Dohnányi brought up a contradiction that every historically aware operagoer must register: the "Ring" delivers a sweeping critique of the urge to dominate others, but it was the creation of a domineering man, and it drew the worshipful admiration of Hitler, the most frightening of megalomaniacs.
Politics Daily writes: "He's known for his originality in a field typified by copy-cats, a mellow personality in a world populated with high-strung brutes, and ecumenical urges in a profession dominated by its unadulterated partisans".
"You have a poetic urge to dominate".
Science and art look at nature not out of an urge to dominate but a longing to understand.
The urge to dominate, and the promise of violence that accompanies it, has never been closer to the surface in "Betrayal" than it is here.
The book's most disquieting passages suggest that music has always had a violent heart — that it may be rooted in the urge to dominate and kill.
I suspect Vollmann is right, however, to juxtapose the colonial impulse with the sexual impulse: the urge to dominate adds the post to colonial.
In his fictional worlds, human greed, hubris and the urge to dominate were just as powerful as the most advanced computers.
For them, the genocidal state was not merely a German problem, something that resulted from listening to too much Wagner; it was a Western problem, rooted in the Enlightenment urge to dominate nature.
