Word: canton
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...Canton Trade Fair, the bustling twice-annual bazaar for China's international commerce, a Chinese official approached a visiting European businessman with a delicate but unmistakable proposition: favored business dealings, in return for the gift of a particularly desirable stereo hi-fi system. In Tianjin (Tientsin), a factory received a special shipment from an overseas Chinese merchant with whom it regularly deals: a free new automobile. In Peking, officials of a trading corporation asked another foreigner for a specified gift, an expensive Nikon camera...
...subsequently followed suit, as did news media around the world, including TIME. (One notable exception: London's Daily Telegraph, which until January of this year still quaintly referred to Iran as "Persia"). Readers of newspapers and magazines were being forced to puzzle out such Sinological oddities as Guangzhou (Canton), Xizang (Tibet) and Nei Mong-gol (Inner Mongolia...
...Pinyin spellings with the conventional Wade-Giles rendering in parentheses. There will be exceptions. Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong in Pinyin) and other familiar figures of history will not appear in their Pinyin form. Nor will such widely used place names as Peking (Beijing in Pinyin), Canton (Guangzhou), Tibet (Xizang) or Hong Kong (Xianggang). China will remain China, and not become Zhongguo...
...Nelson Canton...
...aides. Signed the following day, the pacts only modestly advanced relations between the two countries, but they served as tokens of the payoff that normalization is supposed to bring. The U.S. agreed to let Peking open consulates in Houston and San Francisco in exchange for American consulates in Canton and Shanghai. The U.S. also promised to sell China on credit a communications satellite system that will cost about $500 million, and a 50-billion electron-volt accelerator, used in nuclear research. This would cost up to $200 million and would be the largest such installation in China, but only...