Word: cantonization
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...Kingdom overrun by Instamatics and McDonald's. (In fact, the Chinese have consulted McDonald's executives about possible fast-food techniques for use in China.) Inter-Continental Hotels plans to build within three years a chain of 1,000-room hotels, complete with swimming pools and saunas, in Peking Canton, Shanghai and other major cities. Hyatt International has proposed the construction of hotels with a total capacity of 10,000 rooms. Pan American and several other airlines have entered bidding for landing rights in China to bring in the tourist trade on a major scale...
Another movement under way is the rehabilitation of persons considered "bourgeois." Kwangtung Radio announced that at Canton's Rubber Plant No. 7, "six former bourgeois owners" discharged during the Cultural Revolution have been rehired and assigned to administrative and production jobs. This is a clear application of Teng's pragmatism: it is a person's technical knowledge that the new China wants, not his political purity...
Ever since the first Yankee clipper set sail for Canton in 1784, China has held a compelling fascination for Americans. Traders and other early visitors to the Celestial Kingdom returned home with tales of teeming millions, exotic landscapes, seemingly outlandish manners and morals. Even today some Americans have a vision of China that is a fanciful montage of antithetical images: Confucius and Kung Fu; Wellesley-educated Madame Chiang Kai-shek and Mao's "sinister" widow Chiang Ch'ing; highborn ladies tiptoeing painfully on bound feet and unisex masses marching in bulky Mao jackets; delicately misty watercolors and propaganda...
...tradition of the 1960s, Robinson's group staged hymn-singing marches. Some of his followers were arrested, but the marches spread to Lexington, Okolona, Canton and Corinth. The Ku Klux Klan held counterdemonstrations, and there were scattered episodes of violence. Robinson's tactics are not born of nostalgia; they fit his perception of the problem. "There's no such thing as the New South," he says bitterly. "There's more racism in Mississippi in 1978 than there was in 1972." But some blacks see Robinson's approach as self-defeating. When the Tupelo city government...
...pursuit of modernization, China is now willing to accept the aid of the capitalist West. Last week alone, the Chinese negotiated a series of deals with the Western world that would have been inconceivable under Mao. At the Canton Trade Fair, Peking's main foreign trade showcase, the Chinese sold approximately $1 billion in goods to foreign countries, while their purchases amounted to about $600 million. According to the National Council for U.S.-China Trade, American businessmen sold the Chinese some $83 million in commodities, mostly industrial chemicals, and bought $62 million worth of textiles and arts and crafts...