Word: erh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...joint venture between Japan's Fujitsu and Hitachi, the largest manufacturer of plasma screens, spent $40 million in its plasma business this year, and next year plans to double that. Plasma "is much more ready for the market at this moment, especially in large sizes," says Wang Chien-erh, a vice-president at market research firm DisplaySearch. "lcd TV makers are trying to catch up." How successful they'll be "depends on how much and how quickly they improve quality...
...these affecting stories are chronicles of personal trial. Keng Erh is a scientist, returned from America, who enjoys the privileged status of a leading intellectual: a maid, a small apartment of his own, even a refrigerator. But he is forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because...
That spring, she remembered, some friends who knew nothing about what was happening to her in a political way started calling her by the nickname Erh Kan-tzu, literally Two Stalks, because her legs were skinny and she strutted about on them in brave style. She had lost weight because she was subsisting on very little, eating almost nothing, just two shao-ping (wheat-flour pancakes common to North China) a day. And she cut corners in other ways. Why was she so concerned about saving money? "To pay off Li Ta-chang!" she responded brightly, refusing to elaborate...
...century reign of the Emperor Hsuan Tsung, but did not reach its final, refined form until the reign of Emperor Chien Lung (1736 to 1796). The style poses formidable challenges to Western audiences. There is appealing exotica in the pentatonic backgrounds played by such instruments as the two-stringed erh-hu, or alto fiddle, and assorted gongs, clappers, drums and pipes. But the high, falsetto fioritura of the singers is difficult to take at the start, even if it is the Chinese ideal of good singing. Most problematical of all are the symbolic sets and the symbol-laden gestures...
Relax & Enjoy It. Hankow's Chang-chiang jih-pao reported on the gay life of the Suichuan District Party Committee in southwest Kiangsi province. By adopting the attitude, "Now that victory has been achieved, why shouldn't we enjoy ourselves a bit?" Party Secretary Chiao Erh-kung had "led a depraved personal life." Police Chief Lu Pin had "specialized in dinner parties for women guests," each time "spending the equivalent of the vegetable allowance of 70 members of his bureau." After squandering the bureau's entire budget (7,000 Ibs. of rice), Lu had embezzled party cash...