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Word: ching (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children to special schools. Recent denunciations of Chiang Ching, Mao's now disgraced widow, have emphasized her sybaritic tastes: she had two villas in Peking's Summer Palace, feasted on exotic birds' nests for days at a time, and dressed her Pekingese puppies in vests made of costly imported fabrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Socialism: Trials and Errors | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...constitution pledges fewer ideological restrictions on the arts and literature, which most Chinese will clearly welcome. When copies of a Chinese translation of Hamlet appeared in a shop on Peking's Wang Fu Ching Street recently, they attracted a queue of buyers that stretched 100 yds. Official journals have railed against "stereotyped writing" and "wornout themes," authorities are again permitting the old customs of ballad singing and storytelling, and movies like the anti-Japanese war film On the Sungari River, banned since the mid-1960s, can again be seen. In general, the Chinese press has gone to great lengths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hundred Flowers, Part 2 | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...barrel of a gun." Mao's successors now realize that one kind of power China needs most flows from the end of a pipeline. In an attempt to increase oil output and hence speed the country's economic development, 16 Chinese petroleum experts, led by Sun Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet, coast-to-coast tour that took them to the most advanced U.S. drilling sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: Crucial Role for Red Oil | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: On Home Remedies | 2/3/1978 | See Source »

...Backhouse could claim in the Imperial court, Trevor-Roper penetrates the mystery of the self-styled Hermit of Peking. But what is so fascinating about this book, what makes it so immensely readable, is not merely the catalogue of Backhouse's many frauds, of which the fabrication of Ching-Shan's diary is not even the greatest, but Trevor-Ropor's personal involvement in the story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mysteries of History | 10/12/1977 | See Source »

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