Word: chien
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...named Warren Gilbertson, 42, who combines the artist's soaring imagination with the craftsman's practical knowledge of his tools. Last week he was demonstrating the fact anew with a series of glowing vases, cups and bowls which looked extraordinarily like China's classic Sung dynasty Chien-yao ware (better known by its Japanese name: Temmoku...
...wrong can a man be? Even as Ai penned this sentence, his boss, Chien Chun-jui, Vice Minister of Education, was taking his cue from Mao Tse-tung and beginning to lambaste China's university professors for their alleged sins. The boss's purpose should have been clear to an old brainwasher like Ai: in the course of converting China's famed old universities into trade schools for agricultural and industrial technicians, the Reds must bully the faculties into complete acceptance of Communist doctrine...
...have discovered that our party has been corroded by bourgeois ideology and influence," cried Chinese Politburocrat Kao Kang. "One more enemy remains," declared Yey Chien-ying, big party boss in South China, "and that is bourgeois class thought." In every city, the Reds turned with a vengeance on the business community. Almost any normal act fell under the Five Anti Campaign definition of crimes-buying lunch for a government official, an increase in prices, normal attempts to get government contracts, the gift of a Parker 51 to a government agent...
...remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped to the U.S. Last week Dr. Yang Chien-kien, head of the Chinese Institute of Anthropology at Peking, joined the chorus. Americans, he said, had stolen one of the world's paleontological treasures...