Word: asianness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Chira's involvement with the Times had its roots in her undergraduate years, when she was a History and East Asian Studies concentrator at the College...
Chira said she owes her start with the Times in part to one of her East Asian studies professors, Ezra F. Vogel, the Ford Professor of the Social Sciences...
...case of bad timing or a disturbing sign of things to come? That's what residents of Hong Kong are asking after Beijing put the kibosh on Pope John Paul II?s planned visit to the former British colony later this year. Chinese officials told the Union of Asian Catholic News Agencies Monday that Beijing blocked the pontiff?s plans to visit the territory -- where an estimated 370,000 Catholics reside -- on the grounds that the Vatican maintains diplomatic ties with Taiwan. In more confident times, China?s Communist Party leadership may have been prepared to overlook such a detail...
...After World War II, some decision was made to develop South Asian culture," Witzel said. "In the 1950s and '60s, more professorships were created, and the department attracted more students...
...thing by most reckonings, and especially by the Fed?s ?- and for giving American consumers back, out of the government newly-teeming annual coffers, some of what they?ve been consuming so furiously to put in. It?s their economy, stupid; they made the boom, with some help from Asian imports and Robert Rubin, and wouldn?t it be nice for the GOP to show its appreciation (and hopefully win a few elections) by cutting America a check...