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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...allowed themselves to fall prey to cowardice, to foreign money and to treason are a minority who advocated foreign intervention," the communique added. "In the next few hours, this group will appear before justice, covered with shame...
...several councillors said they were concerned that the supermarket company had not provided clear plans for the site. Last week, the council voted down Higley's proposal and asked the developers to appear and explain their intentions for the so-called "super Stop and Shop...
...matter why Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution, what is most interesting today is that the Chairman's successors appear totally uninterested in the question. For the party's present leaders, so expert at rewriting history that they regularly crop from official photographs whoever is currently out of favor, it has been enough to blame a few scapegoats for a decade of chaos and leave it at that...
...Enough!" shouts the mother of the groom. "This is their wedding day. I don't want to hear anymore. Let us leave quietly." Then, apropos of nothing more than the increasingly common disdain many Chinese appear to feel for the army they saw as their great protector before it marched on Tiananmen, this small, fine-boned woman with searing brown eyes and a complexion Margaret Thatcher would compare to a rose recites some lines of Du Fu, the 8th century poet famous for decrying the gulf between ruled and ruler in China: "So it is better to abandon a daughter...
...proverb says, 'In the morning, welcomed as the guest of a high official; in the evening, held as a prisoner under the steps.' To survive in China, you must keep your head down and be ready to change your allegiances and enthusiasms quickly -- or at least appear to. The elements are simple enough. Trust the papers only for sports. In politics, believe nothing until it is officially denied. Report your own opinions by saying things like 'I heard it on the bus,' or 'The rumor is . . .' Learn to recognize euphemisms...