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During the rest of his life, DuBois travelled extensively through the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959 and that same year was honored by Chou En-lai at a birthday dinner in Peking...
Already China has moved to strengthen its ties with Europe. It has agreed to establish formal relations with the Common Market, and last week sent Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the third most powerful man in Peking after Mao Tse-tung and Chou Enlai, to Paris for talks with French leaders. Peking will probably also try to strengthen its ties with Japan and the U.S. Ironically, the Communist triumph in South Viet Nam could push China into a closer relationship with the West and Japan in an effort to offset growing Soviet influence in Southeast Asia...
...Chou See Ahlek is a pseudonym for a Harvard student from Singapore who asked that his name not be used for fear of political repercussions...
...political meaning. Just two years ago, Teng was still in disgrace, a victim of the Cultural Revolution's excesses; now, highly placed in all three of China's most powerful institutions, the party, the government and the army, he is seen as the eventual successor to Premier Chou Enlai. As for Chang, many China watchers are beginning to regard him as the long-range favorite to succeed the 81-year...
...also felt that the making of beautiful and perfect objects utterly transcended their function in a strictly utilitarian sense as evidence of a way of life." The more than four hundred jades in the collection date from the Neolithic period (to ca. 1550 B.C.) to the Late Eastern Chou dynasty (480-222 B.C.) and they are presented with a minimum of historical or stylistic explanation. In case after case these beautiful and mysterious objects speak eloquently of a culture's skill and sensitivity...