Word: chia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teng, meanwhile, was continuing to exact sweet revenge on some of his old enemies. Wu Teh, the mayor of Peking at the time of the riots and one of Teng's principal adversaries, has already been sacked and replaced by Lin Hu-chia, a Teng ally. Ch'en Hsi-lien, commander of the Peking military region, and Wang Tung-hsing, head of the secret police, have also come under attack...
...FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will be sent to a special "cadre school," one of the reform camps for ideologically wayward leaders, there to spend long hours studying Mao and Lenin and laboring...
...Chen's import franchise fell into her lap when she got a visa to visit relatives in China last year. Liao Chia-Jeng, a brother who was killed in the Shanghai Rising of 1928, had become a popular Communist hero. When Chinese officials realized that Liao was her brother, they let her travel unescorted throughout the country for two months, asked her to be an adviser to the Chinese Board of Trade and granted her the import concession...
...THIS POINT we all left the conference room to visit some of the University buildings. I found myself walking around the campus with Chia China, a man of about 60, professor of English Language and Literature. He like most of the others, was dressed in the customary simple suit of dark blue, with stand-up collar band and blue cap with visor...
...Chen Chia had gone to Harvard as a young gentleman of the old school. How could it have been otherwise? Only sons of well-to-do families could afford to travel to America and spend several years there. And when he returned home he and his colleagues were a part of the small upper crust of Chinese society...