Word: china
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concedes that her artistic vision is "distinctly Asian" in its stark simplicity and virtual requirement to "look inward." If it, and her almost single-minded devotion to work, can be traced to anything, it is to the close- knit, ascetic world of her family. Her parents fled China just before the Communist takeover in 1949 and eventually settled in Athens, Ohio, where her father, a ceramicist, taught for many years at Ohio University, and where her mother, a poet, still does. Her older brother, Tan, is also a poet. Lin's family in China, which included an architect...
...many students yesterday said that people would be more likely to attend the event if more money were slated to go to China...
...think that many more people would feel better about going to the dance if as much money was going to China as possible," said Eugene Kaji '84, a Cabot House tutor who was president of the Asian American Association as an undergraduate. "The way the dance is being advertised and the ambiguity of the phrase `some proceeds' causes a lot of skepticism among the students...
Fairbanks, who was White's tutor and helped spur his lifelong interest in China, recalled White saying that "he had not come to Harvard for the elms or the banks of the Charles...but rather... `to get this badge which says veritas but which means...
After graduating from Harvard, White went to cover the war in China for Time magazine and other publications. From his years in China he produced the controversial book, Thunder Out of China, on the Chinese Nationalist government...