Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tens of thousands of people in the ancient capital of Xian blocked roads and held anti-government demonstrations. Xian radio said the unrest had "seriously wrecked the city's life...
...mayor's rough-hewn style can provokeangry responses. At one recent council meeting,Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 accused the mayorof trying to "smear" speakers by digging up thecity's ancient history...
...atmosphere, colored by streams of newcomers including policemen and even Buddhist monks, changed from tragic to almost festive. A miracle was revealing itself in the center of this ancient empire, a truth which had been buried so deep and so long that it had almost been forgotten: the miracle is their own strength. It is their own strength that the Chinese people are rediscovering right at this moment...
...purpose of the designation, countrary to popular belief, is NOT censorship but preservation," according to an ancient document in the library's file on the "ubiquitous X" collection. Legend has it that the collection was started in the 1950s after a sociology professor found that the books on eroticism he needed for his research had been stolen or damaged. So the library set up the closed-stacks collection to make sure that scholars would have access to the research material...
...students have struck an ancient chord in Chinese history," explains Thomas Bernstein, a China scholar and chairman of Columbia University's political science department. "It is the idea of the scholar-official who remonstrates with the emperor about some evil in the kingdom that the ruler should put right. The emperor won't listen, and the scholar-official takes his own life as a witness, or sacrifice, to the higher good." By casting themselves in the role of the scholar-official, the students have become the bearers of that tradition...