Word: chen
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...Chen Yuancai stands at the beginning of the Chinese dream. At 71, Chen has lived all his life in Shuangliu, a small village north of the Yangtze between the two cities of Luzhou and Chongqing in Sichuan province. In his cottage are three roughly hewn wooden coffins. "That's for my elder brother, that's for my wife," he says matter-of-factly. "Mine is on the bottom." The three coffins cost him $625, all told, including the grave sites on the hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable...
...Chen has two sons and two daughters; his elder son and a daughter work in the provincial capital, Chengdu. His other son has gone south to the booming city of Guangzhou, where he works as a welder while his wife does shift work at a shoe factory. They send back $75 a month to the family. "Just about every family in this village has someone in Guangzhou. They say life is all right there. They have fish and meat to eat every day. Of course it is better to be in the village where you come from, but there...
...Taipei frazzled. China hopes to use better relations with the U.S. as bait, to entice Washington into a joint effort to put pressure on Taiwan. Taiwan is worried that some arm-twisting could be coming. "We believe the U.S. should not discuss the three nos with Beijing," says Chen Chien-jen, director-general of the Government Information Office in Taipei. Adds Vice Foreign Minister David Lee: "We don't want this written down because we don't want Beijing to interpret what independence means...
...Every year is a learning year. This is still a young program, so we can learn even from a bad year," Chen said. "We try to look at it optimistically and not just say that we had a crappy season and leave it at that. With a young program, we don't have the luxury of having memories of any glory years from 20 years ago. We are creating our own past right...
...think the huge response we received from allmembers of the student body is a very goodindication of what cooperation can do for studentson this campus," said Jay F. Chen '00, AAAco-president and a Crimson executive. "Things canchange and they can start with just one person...