Word: hangchow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tianjin (Tientsin), the local press last month reported on "criminal elements who provoke fights, rob pedestrians and humiliate and insult women in broad daylight." In Peking, there have been reports of small bands of young men who lie in wait in dark alleys to rob passersby. In Hangzhou (Hangchow) last month, two brothers were sentenced to death-and one of them immediately executed-for having raped 106 women over the past five years. In the southern district of Shaoguan (Shao-kuan), nine teen-agers were seized after assaulting a woman at an evening film show; their leader was sentenced...
...moment though, the Chinese seem especially interested in American brainpower. At almost every stop on the tour-at a seismological observatory outside Peking, at an electronics plant in Changzhou (Changchow), at hospitals in Shanghai, in scenic Hangzhou (Hangchow) and at fisheries near Canton-we were told of leading American scientists who had already been there...
...week Pan American's Intercontinental Hotels subsidiary signed a preliminary pact with the Chinese to build six or seven hotels, each with 500 to 1,000 rooms. At least one hotel will be in Peking; others may rise in Shanghai, Canton, and perhaps in the lakeside resort town of Hangchow and the country's ancient capital of Sian...
...problem: What to do after 9 p.m.? Its cavernous eighth floor has been designated Cafe-Bar. Therein until midnight the visitor can eat watermelon or sherbet, sip his choice of poison, from tepid beer to fu-te-ka (vodka), and yak until yawn. Sorry, no floor show, dancing or Hangchow-panky, though such dubious distractions are doubtless only a few short years away...
Even so, official court notices posted last week proclaimed the execution of "counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary...