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...seek the truth from the facts," is a popular slogan in China now, explains Ching Chang Hsiao, a special reporter with the Wen Hui Daily in Shanghai and currently a Nieman fellow studying American history and foreign policy. "During the last ten to 20 years we emphasized the truth, but somehow the truth is not the facts, it's produced from people's minds," he says, referring to the Cultural Revolution. "Now we must pursue the truth; we must do everything according to the objective will...
...Ching-Chang Hsiao says that he wanted to be a Nieman fellow because "we must get more knowledge about America and about the world. We can't confine ourselves to China or to Shanghai." Certainly, in his own life Hsiao has not confined himself much. After graduating from Nanking University in 1951, he taught Chinese literature in middle school in Shanghai. After joining the Wen Hui Daily on 1957 he covered the arts--especially music and foreign artists--for about ten years...
Yang was unable to do manual work because of poor health, so she remained in Shanghai and was "borrowed by the Chinese translation publishing house." In 1973, Ching-Chang Hsiao returned from the countryside and was borrowed by the People's Publishing House as a specialist in Chinese classical language and literature...
...welcome!" Across the square, crack drill squads of army, navy and air force troops stood at attention, bayonets fixed, and a People's Liberation Army unit fired off a 21-gun artillery salute. But the most intriguing welcoming committee had been pushed by police 300 yards back across Chang An Avenue to the perimeter, beyond Reagan's view: thousands of ordinary Chinese, most of them young, who had come out on their own to glimpse the visiting American. It was the largest such spontaneous gathering for a foreign visitor that observers could recall...
...simply ignore the procedures we just passed," said Vincent T. Chang '84, adding. "How can we justify the largest grant ever in council history without adequate review...