Word: gu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letter to the foundation yesterday, HRAACF executive team members Abigail L. Hing '99 and Jeffrey R. Gu '00 argued that the foundation's decision has "overlooked" the Asian American experience "as a legitimate cultural experience...
...While we understand and wish to honor the decision of your staff, we feel wronged by the foundation's denial of the ethnic and cultural focus of our organization," Hing and Gu wrote...
From high on the hill in the riverside town of Wanxian, Gu Xiaoli looks out over the boat dock from her kitchen window and sighs. She is cooking a modest dinner of rice soup, pigs' feet and steamed buns. In the past two years, she, her husband and her son have all been laid off from textile factories in the town. With their combined pensions of $100 a month, they also have to support her 85-year-old father. Her biggest worry is for her son. After being laid off, he opened a restaurant that failed; then...
...better for him. He's 30 now, but he can't find a good wife without a job. Right now we are saving all we can." Her son chimes in for the first time: "In China it's like one big experiment now. And we are the test subjects." Gu Xiaoli ignores his bitter tone. "In China things will get better. But there are so many people...
...excited to be in the sun, to be surrounded by beautiful women, and to get off my butt and get a tan," Gu said...