Word: ching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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China furnishes proof that total revolution does not necessarily bring equality of the sexes. Women dress like men, walk like men, work like men, but, with the exception of Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, few have attained positions of importance in the country...
...into a sport of sorts that claims too much of a President's time and energy. This thought must have occurred to Jerry Ford about halfway down the sheer steps from a pagoda towering over Peking's Summer Palace, which was the breathtaking extravagance of the Ching dynasty's Dowager Empress Ci xi; she diverted $50 million worth of silver earmarked for her navy to rebuild the paradise. Ford pondered the steep descent, and his mind wandered back home to the Rockies. "This would be a good ski slope-there's a nice turn down there...
...been on one train from Warsaw to West Germany, our theatre luggage on another which hadn't arrived. No way to get information from railway authorities in East Berlin. A day passed. Consulted I Ching. Oracle said: Don't worry; relax and feast. While we were stuffing ourselves, news came that our trunks had just arrived...
...visitors to Peking, but Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, still rises to the occasion when it comes time to pose with guests like Thailand's Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj and Iraq's Vice President Taha Moheddin Maruf. More mobile, obviously, is the Chairman's wife, Chiang Ching, 61, who surfaced last week in Shansi province to make her first public speech since the chaotic days of the Cultural Revolution more than five years ago. After addressing a conference on Chinese agriculture, Mme. Mao then showed her proletarian stuff by donning peasant clothing and setting to work shoveling...
...passing of Mao, 81, and the older generation of revolutionary leaders. Many China watchers believe the moderates are already revising or even abandoning some of Mao's precepts. One recent instance of this was the rehabilitation of the former Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Lo Jui-ching, 69. As one of the initial victims of the Cultural Revolution, Lo was publicly humiliated by fanatic young Red Guards as far back as 1966. He was notorious in those days as an advocate of building a modern army equipped with sophisticated weapons rather than relying on the guerrilla warfare concepts...