Word: chu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...facing life-threatening new trouble in mainland China. Without any official announcement, the government has reportedly arrested at least four Jesuit priests in Shanghai, along with several Roman Catholic laymen. The most prominent of those rounded up in the crackdown is Father Zhu Hongshen (known to Westerners as Vincent Chu), 65, who was released from prison in 1979 after serving 23 years. Church sources in Hong Kong say that the Communist regime has charged him with giving false information to his numerous foreign visitors and with following orders from the Vatican...
...area I was from, I guess you would call real patriotic." Samples first saw action in June 1968 at Chu Lai. When he started firing at Viet Cong in a paddyfield, he told himself with a certain wonder, "This is fun." That day he won a Bronze Star for taking out a V.C. position at great personal risk. But there followed a different kind of killing. Samples came upon a Viet Cong gunner who was wounded, lying on his back, begging for help. "We radioed the company and said, 'What do you want us to do with...
...Chu Tarn Cuong Paris...
...others whose work has been diminished, dispersed or utterly lost. In A.D. 1073, virtually all existing copies of Sappho's work were burned in Rome and Constantinople, because the church perceived her lesbian love lyrics as a threat to Christian morality. In 12th century China the parents of Chu Shu-chen incinerated the body of the poet's work after her death, for reasons unknown. A few poems rescued by Chu's friends, and published in this book, are of luminous beauty...
Peter Nien-chu Kiang '80 is the teaching assistant for the Dunster House seminar Asian American Identity and Experience and is a coordinator at the Asian American Resource Workshop in Chinatown...