Word: gongli
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...other hand, if the Gong had barked, wouldn’t it have been much less easy to steal? Not an endorsement. Just a thought...
...peaceful rise" is a brand that's been pitched in the same manner as a multinational mining company would push its green credentials. "Ambassador Fu is out and about and very focused on China's image," says an Australian bureaucrat. "But their methods have been heavy-handed on Falun Gong - they've given them far too much attention." On Taiwan, says another official, the Chinese have been emphatic in public and assiduous in working the back channels. If anything, the charm offensive has worked so well that usually robust Australians - afraid to give offense or spoil a business venture - often...
...Chinese citizens who have challenged the government. Ma Wenlin, a law clerk, helped overtaxed farmers file a class-action suit against the government. Fang Ke, an architecture student, wrote an influential underground book detailing the destruction of old Beijing. Chen Zixiu, a retiree and a member of the Falun Gong sect, refused to give up her religious practices in the face of government condemnation...
...hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid a spot on the literary landscape as William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha or Thomas Hardy's Wessex. Kenzaburo Oe, a Japanese winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is among many admirers who insist that Mo Yan deserves the gong himself. Given the prize committee's distaste for success, that means he'll probably never...
...proceeds from the concert will be matched by Harvard Habitat for Humanity, according to artistic coordinator Rebecca R. Gong...