Word: chen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...begun renewing contact with the outside world. Thousands of China's brightest scholars were dispatched to the U.S., Germany and Japan to vacuum up the latest scientific knowledge and take new ideas back home to advance the socialist cause. But the world outside proved too alluring for many students. Chen Jianjun, who arrived in the Japanese city of Kobe on a Chinese government scholarship in 1982, recalls how alien Japan's orderly society felt to a boy whose formative years were shaped by the anarchy of the Cultural Revolution. "Coming to Japan was like going to the moon," he says...
...Steve Chen Co-founder and chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube...
...clothes” was useless. But that didn’t seem to throw off the visitors, who came in eager droves to switch their old for new, and who seemed pretty pleased with their findings. “Everyone here has good taste,” said Chen “Jennifer” Ding ’10, who is also a Crimson news writer, as she was trying on a slinky black number. “There’s food and clothes,” said Kameron A. Collins ’09, an intern...
...former factory location, bright pink pillars, green floors and some sumptuously curvaceous green sofas that look like they might be sculptures in their own right, the Ya Chao or Refined Nest Gallery, www.yachaogallery.com, is almost a parody of a funky art space. It specializes in Chinese contemporary art - Chen Feng, Han Jia Quan, Pan Wei, Liu Xuguang, Qu Fengguo, Cai Bing - but also deals in artists from the New Chinese fine arts movement...
...owned and run by the Hong Kong-born entrepreneur, Pearl Lam. Her aim is to celebrate the best in Chinese modern art while exploring its relationship with 5,000 years of the country's artistic tradition. You can see some of the hottest names there - Sun Liang, Yang Bo, Chen Yun, Shao Fan and Hu Youben among them. Classy, collectible stuff - if you're rich...