Word: cantonization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became even more hopeful when we got to China and the guide in charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
...Peking's Revolutionary Committee, but for the rest of us our walks past the Great Hall of the People and Mao's heavily-guarded residence were as close as we got to a party official. With only one day remaining in our 15-day stay, we had returned to Canton en route to Hong Kong, where we would take a plane back to the United States...
Residents of Canton, Ill. (pop. 14,000), regulated their lives according to the seven blasts heard each day on the town's whistle, perched on top of the local International Harvester plant. They awakened to the first morning whistle at 6 a.m., set their watches by it, and moved in steady, sure steps throughout the day, alert to the whistle's sound. The Environmental Protection Agency heard in the whistle not the sound of a community ordering its hours but a D.B.A. (for decibels adjusted) measurement of 89, 28 points higher than the limit allowed by a state...
...region for more than 14 years. Chen was sent to Peking as commander of the capital military region. Another powerful Politburo member, Hsu Shih-yu, 67, was uprooted from the comfortable Yangtze barony of the Nanking military region he had held for the past 16 years and sent to Canton, even though he reportedly cannot speak Cantonese...
China's trade relationship with England seemed no different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...